Re: capturing on both interfaces simultaneously

[abhinav narain <abhinavnarain10 () gmail com>]

RETURN VALUES
>     Select() returns the number of ready descriptors that are contained in
>     the descriptor sets, or -1 if an error occurred.  If the time limit
>     expires, select() returns 0.  If select() returns with an error,
> includ-
>     ing one due to an interrupted call, the descriptor sets will be unmodi-
>     fied and the global variable errno will be set to indicate the error.
>
> so it's one of those APIs.
>
> What you should do is to, if select() returns -1 *and* errno is EINTR,
> just ignore the error and continue looping.
>
> Ya, I did that in the morning ... it works now.

> > Also, it keeps printing ": Resource temporarily unavailable"
> > though I don't have any error statement to be printed.
>
> What is "it"?  Your program?  Or just *some* program?
 Its the return statement of perror.
I removed it.

It works fine now.
But how do I know, how much packets is my program dropping?
using pcap_stats ?
I already have 15% RAM being eaten by the program, so I can't actually
increase the buffer size to save packets in between select switches.

Abhinav
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