From: Florian Lehner
> Sent: 29 July 2017 13:29
> This patch adds support for RFC2732 IPv6 address format with brackets
> for the tool ss. So output for ss changes from
> 2a00:1450:400a:804::200e:443 to [2a00:1450:400a:804::200e]:443 for IPv6
> addresses with attached port number.
>
> Signed-off-by: Lehner Florian <d...@der-flo.net>
> ---
> misc/ss.c | 6 +++++-
> 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/misc/ss.c b/misc/ss.c
> index 12763c9..db39c93 100644
> --- a/misc/ss.c
> +++ b/misc/ss.c
> @@ -1059,7 +1059,11 @@ static void inet_addr_print(const inet_prefix *a,
> int port, unsigned int ifindex
> ap = format_host(AF_INET, 4, a->data);
> }
> } else {
> - ap = format_host(a->family, 16, a->data);
> + if (a->family == AF_INET6) {
> + sprintf(buf, "[%s]", format_host(a->family, 16,
> a->data));
> + } else {
> + ap = format_host(a->family, 16, a->data);
> + }
> est_len = strlen(ap);
...
There are some strange things going on with global variables if this works at
all.
The text form of the address is in buf[] in one path and *ap in the other.
One option might be to call format_host() then use strchr(ap, ':')
to add [] if the string contains any ':'.
David
