Re: Feature request: time limits

[Rob Quinn <rquinn () pobox com>]

> > See patches below for a sample implementation with ualarm
> ...which isn't necessarily present on all the platforms on which tcpdump runs
> (note that it runs on Windows

 Whole seconds are fine if Windows supports alarm().

> I've added that API - "pcap_breakloop()"; it takes as an argument a "pcap_t
> *", and sets a flag in that "pcap_t" to cause packet capturing loops to be
> terminated.

  If cleanup() and SIGTERM/INT are going to use this too, the code changes to
support timeouts would still be minimal.
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