Re: A bug in rtnetlink(3) man page?

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 12:06 AM, Sergei Zhirikov <sfzhi@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I believe there is a bug in rtnetlink(3) man page (http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/online/pages/man3/rtnetlink.3.html). There seem to be an error in the example code (the EXAMPLE section). The line:
>
> rta->rta_len = sizeof(unsigned int);
>
> should be:
>
> rta->rta_len = RTA_LENGTH(sizeof(unsigned int));
>
> Can anyone please confirm if I'm right?

Someone just did.

See my next mail.

Cheers,

Michael

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