On 03/14/2013 07:16 PM, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
It seems the broadcast address parameter is not optional now, if users haven't specified the broadcast address to the network interface then a segfault will be raised.
This patch is just a temporary solution to avoid segfault, and with the patch, users will get a expected error "Unable to parse networks: Unable to parse broadcast address (null)", of course, a better patch should automatically generate a broadcast address according to actual ip address. But AFAIK, the IPv6 hasn't defined broadcast address, so it needs to do address protocol judgement firstly, I will try to implement it later. I think that if you don't explicitly set a broadcast address, then the kernel will set one on the device based on its address/netmask. So I
On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 07:00:43PM +0800, Alex Jia wrote: think you can just allow a NULL bcast value everywhere in virt-sandbox code.
Daniel
Daniel, got it and thanks for your nice comments, but I think a segmentation fault (core dumped) isn't very friendly for users after all, or should we apply a patch to allow NULL in g_inet_address_new_from_string()? Regards, Alex