[PATCH] rtnetlink.3: fix example code, use RTA_LENGTH macro

[PATCH] rtnetlink.3: fix example code, use RTA_LENGTH macro

[Simon Paillard]

>From Kirill Brilliantov, http://bugs.debian.org/655088
---
 man3/rtnetlink.3 |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/man3/rtnetlink.3 b/man3/rtnetlink.3
index 29d7765..ada93e2 100644
--- a/man3/rtnetlink.3
+++ b/man3/rtnetlink.3
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Creating a rtnetlink message to set the MTU of a device:
     rta = (struct rtattr *)(((char *) &req) +
                              NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len));
     rta\->rta_type = IFLA_MTU;
-    rta\->rta_len = sizeof(unsigned int);
+    rta\->rta_len = RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(unsigned int));
     req.n.nlmsg_len = NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len) +
                                   RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(mtu));
     memcpy(RTA_DATA(rta), &mtu, sizeof(mtu));
-- 
1.7.2.5

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Re: [PATCH] rtnetlink.3: fix example code, use RTA_LENGTH macro

[Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)]

Thanks for forwarding this Simon. Applied for man-pages-3.38.

Cheers,

Michael

On Fri, Mar 23, 2012 at 1:31 PM, Simon Paillard <spaillard-8fiUuRrzOP0dnm+yROfE0A@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> From Kirill Brilliantov, http://bugs.debian.org/655088
> ---
>  man3/rtnetlink.3 |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man3/rtnetlink.3 b/man3/rtnetlink.3
> index 29d7765..ada93e2 100644
> --- a/man3/rtnetlink.3
> +++ b/man3/rtnetlink.3
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ Creating a rtnetlink message to set the MTU of a device:
>     rta = (struct rtattr *)(((char *) &req) +
>                              NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len));
>     rta\->rta_type = IFLA_MTU;
> -    rta\->rta_len = sizeof(unsigned int);
> +    rta\->rta_len = RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(unsigned int));
>     req.n.nlmsg_len = NLMSG_ALIGN(req.nh.nlmsg_len) +
>                                   RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(mtu));
>     memcpy(RTA_DATA(rta), &mtu, sizeof(mtu));
> --
> 1.7.2.5
>
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