RE: future direction for the libpcap API

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca
> [mailto:owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca]On Behalf Of Darren
> Reed
> Sent: lunedi 26 maggio 2003 15.39
> To: tcpdump-workers () tcpdump org
> Subject: [tcpdump-workers] future direction for the libpcap API
>
>
>
> Looking through the API for libpcap, there appear to be a set of new
> convienience functions for Win32:
>
> int pcap_setbuff(pcap_t *p, int dim);
> int pcap_setmode(pcap_t *p, int mode);
> int pcap_sendpacket(pcap_t *p, u_char *buf, int size);
> int pcap_setmintocopy(pcap_t *p, int size);
>
> Is there any reason there shouldn't be an equivalent function for
> Un*x, no matter how simple or trivial ?

ehmm... simple and trivial, that's the point.
I believe most of us will be happy to use these calls on UNIX, provided that
someone else implements the code...

        fulvio

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