Dear Stephen,

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-- 
Damjan

> On 20 Sep 2018, at 19:57, Stephen Hemminger <step...@networkplumber.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> <meta rant>
> Why is there not a simple link on FD.io developer web page to report bugs.
> Reporting bugs page talks about the data BUT DOESN'T GIVE THE PROCESS.
> 
> If you are using JIRA why not vpp-bugs mail alias?
> </meta rant>

wiki.fd.io <http://wiki.fd.io/> -> VPP -> Reporting Bugs
Leads to: https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/BugReports 
<https://wiki.fd.io/view/VPP/BugReports>

> 
> 
> I tried creating a virtio user device and noticed that the device name
> displayed is garbage:
> DBGvpp# create vhost-user socket /var/run/vpp/sock1.sock server
> VirtualEthernet0/0/0
> DBGvpp# show vhost-user
> Virtio vhost-user interfaces
> Global:
>  coalesce frames 32 time 1e-3
>  number of rx virtqueues in interrupt mode: 0
> Interface: VirtualEthernet0/0/0�x�D (ifindex 3)
>                               ^^^^^^

Yeah, typical vector vs string foobar, I might be guilty for this one 3-4 years 
ago.
Interesting that nobody spotted it before :)

Are you using clang to compile?

> Looking at source, vmxnet3 has same bug.

ack

> 
> 
> Looks like a bug related to string handling.
> Somewhat disgruntled that VPP had to reinvent strings in C.

It might be because VPP was build long time ago for systems which doesn't 
have standard C library. 

I know it is annoying for somebody new to vpp, but soon you start to like it...


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