[Linux-ia64] x86 compatability problem: ioctl() SIOCGIFCONF

["Tseng-hui Lin" <tsenglin@us.ibm.com>]

    I need to keep some x86 code alive in IA64 land. It looks like ioctl()
SIOCGIFCONF function doesn't work. I compiled the attached test program on
an x86 machine and ran it on an RedHat 7.2 Linux/IA64. It gave me "ioctl
SIOCGIFCONF: Bad address". The program works if it is compiled and run on
an IA64 machine. I know that the sizes of struct ifreq are different on x86
and IA64. However, it hasn't reached that part yet. I thought it might be
memory alignment problem since ioctl() returns "Bad address". I put some
paddings to make the variables allocated on 8-byte boundary but the problem
is still there. Has any one seen this problem before?

#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <unistd.h>
#include <sys/ioctl.h>
#include <sys/socket.h>
#include <net/if.h>

#define MAX_NUM_IFREQ (512)

main() {
    struct ifconf       Ifc;
    struct ifreq        IfcBuf[MAX_NUM_IFREQ];
    struct ifreq        *pIfr;
    int num_ifreq;
    int i;
    int fd;

    Ifc.ifc_len = sizeof(IfcBuf);
    Ifc.ifc_buf = (char *) IfcBuf;

    if ((fd = socket(AF_INET, SOCK_DGRAM, 0)) < 0) {
        perror("socket()");
        exit(1);
    }
    if ( ioctl(fd, SIOCGIFCONF, &Ifc) < 0) {
        perror("ioctl SIOCGIFCONF");
        exit(1);
    }
    num_ifreq = Ifc.ifc_len / sizeof(struct ifreq);
    for ( pIfr = Ifc.ifc_req, i = 0 ; i < num_ifreq; pIfr++, i++ ) {
        printf("%d: %s<=\n", i, pIfr->ifr_name);
    }
}

Tseng-Hui (Frank) Lin  tsenglin@us.ibm.com
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