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Prevent the kernel from generating an unaligned sysctl data buffer on

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Prevent the kernel from generating an unaligned sysctl data buffer on
64-bit platforms. The unaligned access is caused by struct ifa_msghdr
not being a multiple of 8-bytes in size. If an interface has an odd
number of addresses, this causes the next interface to generate an
unaligned access in the user-level app walking the interfaces (ifconfig).

Submitted by: Bernd Walter <ticso@cicely8.cicely.de>

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gallatinAuthored on Jan 27 2002, 8:39 PM
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rGc3751af262dd: Add -o option (POSIX.1-2001) to uudecode(1). Deprecate the -p option
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