netdev - Re: iproute2: prints bogus hoplimit

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Date:	Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:35:12 +0100 (CET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de>
To:	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...tta.com>
cc:	Stephen Hemminger <stephen.hemminger@...tta.com>,
	netdev@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: iproute2: prints bogus hoplimit


On Wednesday 2009-03-18 23:12, Stephen Hemminger wrote:
>On Tue, 24 Feb 2009 11:27:52 +0100 (CET)
>Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ozas.de> wrote:
>
>> $ ip -6 r
>> fc00::/7 dev rtl0  proto kernel  metric 256  mtu 1500 advmss 1440 
>> hoplimit 4294967295
>> 
>> Most likely, "hoplimit -1" would be the right number, though I am not 
>> sure if simply changing %u by %d is a correct thing to do, since it 
>> would affect all fields.
>> 
>> ---
>>  ip/iproute.c |    2 +-
>>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>>  	if (i != RTAX_RTT && i != RTAX_RTTVAR &&
>>  	    i != RTAX_RTO_MIN)
>> -		fprintf(fp, " %u", *(unsigned*)RTA_DATA(mxrta[i]));
>> +		fprintf(fp, " %d", *(unsigned*)RTA_DATA(mxrta[i]));
>
>No fix the kernel please.
>
And what should the kernel return?
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