Subject: Re: importing libpcap 0.8.3, UPDATE
To: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
From: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
List: tech-net
Date: 09/22/2004 18:49:59
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On Sep 22, 2004, at 3:56 PM, David Young wrote:
> Do we still want to diverge from the tcpdump.org API, as in this
> revision?
>
> ----------------------------
> revision 1.24
> date: 2000/10/06 16:39:24; author: thorpej; state: Exp; lines: +53
> -2
> Add pcap_compile_nopcap() from the most recent libpcap release
> from tcpdump.org, although with a slightly different signature.
> The tcpdump.org version has no way to report an error string back
> to the caller. This version takes an additional "errbuf" argument
> (similar to pcap_open_*()).
>
The tcpdump.org version of the call is completely lame for not having
that errbuf argument. Keep our local patch, and get them to fix it.
-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@shagadelic.org>
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