Re: Multiple call to pcap_open_live

[Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn <bvanheu () gmail com>]

On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> On Nov 17, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn <bvanheu () gmail com>
> wrote:
>
> > libpcap version: 1.4.0 (on archlinux)
> >
> > Is it possible to have multiple call to "pcap_open_live()" followed by
> > pcap_close() ?
>
> Yes, modulo bugs in libpcap or libraries it uses.
>
> > It seems like pcap_close() doesn't cleanly close opened resources, if you
> > strace the following program, you will see file descriptors growing up.
>
> Bug in the "support on Linux for USB-attached CANbus devices" code; fixed
> in the libpcap trunk, and will be fixed in the 1.5 release when it comes
> out.

I've just tested against libpcap commit
11031d0f71387161c282248cddc2fa0f7bf014ce (Mon Nov 11 11:21:43 2013
-0800) that i got from here
https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap.gitand the problem still
exists.

I'm still not sure if the problem comes from my distro or the libpcap code.
If you can't reproduce i would say that the problem comes from my distro,
but i'm not sure where to look.

-- 
Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn
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