On 04/14/2011 01:06 PM, Laine Stump wrote: > > (Change from V1 - define a static char[] containing the desired > prefix, and use its size to figure out how much to truncate, rather > than having a bunch of magic numbers. This also makes it simpler and > less error-prone to change the suffix if we decide to.)
Indeed :)
> The solution is to shorten the part of the original name used to
> generate the tap device name. However, simply truncating it is
> insufficient, because the last few characters of an interface name are
> often a number used to indicate one of a list of several similar
> devices (for example, "verylongname123", "verylongname124", etc) and
> simple truncation would lead to duplicate names (eg "verlongnam-nic"
> and "verylongnam-nic"). So instead we take the first 8 characters of
> $bridgename ("verylong" in the example), add on the final 3 bytes
> ("123"), then add "-nic" (so "verylong123-nic"). Not pretty, but it
> is much more likely to generate a unique name, and is reproducible
> (unlike, say, a random number).
> ---
> src/network/bridge_driver.c | 16 +++++++++++++++-
> 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
Here's making my IRC review official:
ACK.
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