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libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request
From: Craig Davison <craig () darkcalgary com>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2003 19:20:10 -0600 (MDT)
Hello all, I noticed that pcap_dump has no (documented) way of reporting I/O errors back to the caller. However, the user parameter (pcap_dumper_t*) can be casted to type FILE*, and passed to ferror() after every call. This allows, for example, disk space and large filesize errors to be trapped. What do you think about adding a pcap_dump_fileno(pcap_dumper_t*) function that returns a FILE *, so developers don't have to do a nasty (and possibly non-portable) cast to check for I/O errors? This is an ideal change, as it doesn't involve change the arguments or return values of any of the other functions. Please let me know what you think. Thanks, -- Craig Davison - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:tcpdump-workers-request () tcpdump org?body=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Craig Davison (Oct 16)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Guy Harris (Oct 17)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Craig Davison (Oct 17)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Craig Davison (Oct 23)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Guy Harris (Nov 03)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Guy Harris (Nov 16)
- Re: libpcap pcap_dumper_t: feature request Guy Harris (Oct 17)