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Diffstat (limited to 'src/print_ip_addr.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | src/print_ip_addr.c | 33 |
1 files changed, 31 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/src/print_ip_addr.c b/src/print_ip_addr.c index cf476ae..30a1ce3 100644 --- a/src/print_ip_addr.c +++ b/src/print_ip_addr.c @@ -13,6 +13,31 @@ #include "i3status.h" /* + * Return a copy of the .ifa_name field passed as argument where the optional + * IP label, if present, is removed. + * + * example: + * - strip_optional_label("eth0") => "eth0" + * - strip_optional_label("eth0:label") => "eth0" + * + * The memory for the returned string is obtained with malloc(3), and can be + * freed with free(3). + * + * + */ +static char *strip_optional_label(const char *ifa_name) { + char *copy = sstrdup(ifa_name); + + char *ptr = strchr(copy, ':'); + + if (ptr) { + *ptr = '\0'; + } + + return copy; +} + +/* * Return the IP address for the given interface or "no IP" if the * interface is up and running but hasn't got an IP address yet * @@ -29,7 +54,6 @@ const char *get_ip_addr(const char *interface, int family) { struct ifaddrs *ifaddr, *addrp; bool found = false; - int interface_len = strlen(interface); getifaddrs(&ifaddr); @@ -38,7 +62,12 @@ const char *get_ip_addr(const char *interface, int family) { /* Skip until we are at the input family address of interface */ for (addrp = ifaddr; addrp != NULL; addrp = addrp->ifa_next) { - if (strncmp(addrp->ifa_name, interface, interface_len) != 0) { + /* Strip the label if present in the .ifa_name field. */ + char *stripped_ifa_name = strip_optional_label(addrp->ifa_name); + + bool name_matches = strcmp(stripped_ifa_name, interface) != 0; + free(stripped_ifa_name); + if (name_matches) { /* The interface does not have the right name, skip it. */ continue; } |