RE: listing all devs

["Fulvio Risso" <fulvio.risso () polito it>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca
> [mailto:owner-tcpdump-workers () sandelman ottawa on ca]On Behalf Of Gisle
> Vanem
> Sent: martedì 13 maggio 2003 18.15
> To: tcpdump
> Subject: Re: [tcpdump-workers] listing all devs
>
>
> "Guy Harris" <guy () netapp com> said:
> > Any UNIX so old as not to have "readdir()" isn't likely to be
> > interesting for libpcap, so all you have to worry about is Win32 and
> > UNIX.
>
> Both MingW and Watcom (the one I use to compile tcpdump) have
> readdir(). Emulating it for MSVC should be easy using FindFirstFile().
>
> > However, the problem then is that to list all capture files you'd have
> > to try to open *all* files in the directory and see which ones are
> > libpcap-format files
>
> That's what I meant.Read the magic number and check against some
> minimum supported version.
>
> So, will pcap_findalldevs_ex() find it's way into the "offical" libpcap?
> I assume pcap-new.c will compile on all targets. Is there a reason why
> winpcap's libpcap isn't synced with the version at www.tcpdump.org?

Yes, there is a reason.

I have cvs commit access on libpcap repository.
However, I don't want to commit everything unless I get an explicit "ok"
from other developers (or from the mlist).
I asked a couple of times what people think about including the new remote
capture (therefore the new functions as well), but I didn't receive a clear
indication. Neither "no", nor "yes".

So, WinPcap has these functions, libpcap has not.
I people think that remote capture (although experimental) and the new
functions are useful, I'm very happy to include them into the libpcap
repository (which is a Very Good Think for me as well, since I'm
experimenting a lot of troubles when trying to syncronize the code between
libpcap and Winpcap).

        fulvio

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