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From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/2] iproute: Add magic cookie to route dump file
Date: Mon, 20 Aug 2012 12:05:38 +0400
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On 08/18/2012 12:49 AM, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
> On Fri, 27 Jul 2012 08:55:41 +0400
> Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com> wrote:
> 
>> In order to somehow verify that a blob contains route dump a
>> 4-bytes magic is put at the head of the data and is checked
>> on restore.
>>
>> Magic digits are taken from Portland (OR) coordinates :) Is
>> there any more reliable way of generating such?
>>
>> Signed-of-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@parallels.com>
> 
> I am planning on putting this in because there were no objections.
> Any followup updates?

Yes, I've recently found that errno propagation from rtnl_talk up to
addrs/routes restore doesn't work on some libc-s. I will post a fixing
patch soon.

Thanks,
Pavel