Re: [bug-inetutils] inetutils-1.8 - ifconfig -a doesn't work as expected

[Giampaolo Gallo]

You did thanks..

I flushed the stdout and the result was the same, so, IMHO it isn't a 
buffering problem.
The command "ifconfig -a" sould show all the interfaces installed on my 
machine. It shows only the loopback (lo) interface instead. The program parses 
the full content of /proc/net/dev but it shows only the first interface it 
finds, i.e. "lo". 
I tried also by changing the backend (system/linux.* -> system/generic.*) 
without success.
My machine is a Linux x86_64 2.6.34.1 with glibc 2.11.2. If you want more 
information please ask and I will be happy to answer.

Regards

Giampaolo

On Sunday 25 July 2010 13:58:00 Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
> I'm not sure if I answered this or not, the output is not strange.
> printf can flush it buffer when it wants, so output is not guaranteed
> to be as you write the calls.  If you want to flush it, you have to do
> so explicitly.