Re: AIX 5.1, tcpdump 3.6.2 and libpcap 0.7.1 pr oblem

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On Fri, Sep 27, 2002 at 09:04:58AM -0400, Ebright, Don wrote:
> As far as I can determine, EFAULT is raised by the AIX BPF driver whenever
> packets have been dropped since the last successful read.

Just out of curiosity, how did you determine that?  By reading
documentation (if so, where do they document it?), or by experimenting?

> I suspect that
> the best approach would be to add another case to the switch after the read
> in pcap_read() to ignore EFAULT just as EINTR is already ignored.  

Or, at least, doing so on AIX - we might want to treat EFAULT as a real
error on the BSDs.
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