root/share/examples/libifconfig/setdescription.c
/*
 * Copyright (c) 2016-2017, Marie Helene Kvello-Aune
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#include <arpa/inet.h>
#include <net/if.h>

#include <err.h>
#include <errno.h>
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <libifconfig.h>


int
main(int argc, char *argv[])
{
        char *ifname, *ifdescr, *curdescr;
        ifconfig_handle_t *lifh;

        if (argc != 3) {
                errx(EINVAL, "Invalid number of arguments."
                    " First argument should be interface name, second argument"
                    " should be the description to set.");
        }

        /* We have a static number of arguments. Therefore we can do it simple. */
        ifname = strdup(argv[1]);
        ifdescr = strdup(argv[2]);
        curdescr = NULL;

        printf("Interface name: %s\n", ifname);

        lifh = ifconfig_open();
        if (lifh == NULL) {
                errx(ENOMEM, "Failed to open libifconfig handle.");
                return (-1);
        }

        if (ifconfig_get_description(lifh, ifname, &curdescr) == 0) {
                printf("Old description: %s\n", curdescr);
        }

        printf("New description: %s\n\n", ifdescr);

        if (ifconfig_set_description(lifh, ifname, ifdescr) == 0) {
                printf("New description successfully set.\n");
        } else {
                switch (ifconfig_err_errtype(lifh)) {
                case SOCKET:
                        err(ifconfig_err_errno(lifh), "Socket error");
                        break;
                case IOCTL:
                        err(ifconfig_err_errno(
                                    lifh), "IOCTL(%lu) error",
                            ifconfig_err_ioctlreq(lifh));
                        break;
                default:
                        err(ifconfig_err_errno(lifh), "Other error");
                        break;
                }
        }

        free(ifname);
        free(ifdescr);
        free(curdescr);
        ifname = NULL;
        ifdescr = NULL;
        curdescr = NULL;

        ifconfig_close(lifh);
        return (0);
}