From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ben Hutchings Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/17] Tools: hv: Gather DNS information Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:38:09 +0100 Message-ID: <20120724233809.GC1894@decadent.org.uk> References: <1343145672-3641-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1343145701-3691-1-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> <1343145701-3691-11-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1343145701-3691-11-git-send-email-kys@microsoft.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: "K. Y. Srinivasan" Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, devel@linuxdriverproject.org, virtualization@lists.osdl.org, olaf@aepfle.de, apw@canonical.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org List-Id: virtualization@lists.linuxfoundation.org On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 09:01:35AM -0700, K. Y. Srinivasan wrote: > Now gather DNS information. This information cannot be gathered in > a distro independent fashion. Invoke an external script (that can be > distro dependent) to gather the DNS information. [...] > + memset(cmd, 0, sizeof(cmd)); > + strcat(cmd, "/sbin/hv_get_dns_info "); > + strcat(cmd, if_name); [...] This is a weird way to build a string; why are you not using snprintf()? Not to mention that interface names can contain several characters that are special to the shell - in fact the only disallowed characters are / and whitespace. Also, the external script will not be useful to anything other than hv_kvp_daemon, so it probably belongs somewhere under /usr/share. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings We get into the habit of living before acquiring the habit of thinking. - Albert Camus