Re: next release of libpcap

[Ken Bantoft <ken () xelerance com>]

On Tue, 25 Mar 2008, Guy Harris wrote:

> Bruce M Simpson wrote:
> > +1 here.
> >
> > Zero copy BPF has just gone into FreeBSD-CURRENT. It would be great to have
> > a snap which can do this too. Christian Peron (CC'd) has been responsible
> > for the code.
>
> That means that we *don't* want to take what we have now and release it, as we
> don't currently have any code that supports zero-copy BPF.  We'd need to get a
> patch to add support for it, and add that, before releasing libpcap 1.0, if a
> goal is to get support for zero-copy BPF in libpcap 1.0.

I'll start snapshoting every week on Thursday's until we're happy enough 
for a 1.0.


Ken
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