Thank you for respons to my e-mail. I read net-snmp's patch as reference. How about this method? Stephen Hemminger wrote: > On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 18:47:04 +0200 > Andreas Schwab wrote: > > >> Stephen Hemminger writes: >> >> >>> On Thu, 16 Apr 2009 04:38:00 -0700 (PDT) >>> David Miller wrote: >>> >>> >>>> From: Yuta sugiura >>>> Date: Thu, 16 Apr 2009 20:05:05 +0900 >>>> >>>> >>>>> Hi, >>>>> I have a suggestion about /proc/net/IPv6_route format. >>>>> In rt6_info_route(), interface name is treated as a maximum 8 >>>>> characters. >>>>> But the type of (struct rt6_inf *)->u.dst.dev->name is char[IFNAMESIZ= >>>>> 16] >>>>> so, I think that it should change "%8s" to "%16s". >>>>> >>>> Isn't there a way to pass the field length as a paramenter >>>> to formatting functions? Then we can just pass in >>>> IFNAMESIZE as that parameter. >>>> >>> seq_printf(m, " %08x %08x %08x %08x %*s\n" >>> rt->rt6i_metric, atomic_read(&rt->u.dst.__refcnt), >>> rt->u.dst.__use, rt->rt6i_flags, >>> IFNAMESIZE, >>> rt->rt6i_dev ? rt->rt6i_dev->name : "") >>> >> Actually since it is the last item on the line a field width does not >> make much sense, and omitting it would print the name left justified. >> >> (And RT6_INFO_LEN is not used any more.) >> >> Andreas. >> >> > > The issue is what happens if name is not null terminated. in this case > I bet the kernel already handles that. > >