Re: New APIs to support multiple DLT_'s on an interface

[Andrew Brown <atatat () atatdot net>]

> > That could be done by adding a "pcap_dump_flush()" call, to force the
> > stdio buffer to be flushed, and have tcpdump's main loop be a loop using
> > "pcap_dispatch()" rather than just being "pcap_loop()", and have it do
> > the "pcap_dump_flush()" call after "pcap_dispatch()" returns.
>
> okay...a patch to tcpdump without intruding into/breaking the libpcap
> api is good.

new tactic.  instead of mucking with the subtle logic of replacing
pcap_loop() with pcap_dispatch(), we put calls to pcap_dump_flush()
into dump_packet_and_trunc() and dump_packet().

now to make the link layer stuff dump...

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