Re: [PATCH]: pcap and zero copy with requested modification

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:30:30PM +1300, Jesper Peterson wrote:
> Yoann Vandoorselaere wrote:
> > +        if ( ! alloc_buffer_cb ) {
> > +                static struct pcap_pkthdr hdr;
> > +                return &hdr;
> > +        }
>
> This isn't re-entrant. To allow multithreading and building libpcap as a DLL, 
> the default header buffer should probably be in pcap_t.

I agree.

There already *is* one there in 0.8.1 and later - the "pcap_header"
member of a "pcap_t".
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