[cffi-devel] calling getifaddrs

pepone.onrez pepone.onrez at gmail.com
Sun Dec 12 13:48:50 UTC 2010


On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 1:45 AM, Luís Oliveira <luismbo at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> The equivalent CFFI code would be something like:
>
>  (with-foreign-object (p :pointer)
>    (getifaddrs p)
>    (foreign-slot-value (mem-ref p :pointer) 'ifaddrs 'name))
>
> If you define NAME's type to be :STRING, that code will yield a Lisp
> string.
>

That works, thanks

The man page shows that the allocated struct should be free calling
freeifaddrs:

void freeifaddrs(struct ifaddrs *ifa);

(freeifaddrs (cffi:mem-ref p :pointer))

is that the correct way to call freeifaddrs?

Regards,
Jose
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