Re: [Patch] tcpdump probabilistic sampling

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ottawa on ca>]

> > > > > "Guy" == Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> writes:
    Guy> Michael Richardson wrote:
    >> Only... -P is used somewhere else, in another patch, I think.  We
    >> gotta get 4.0 out, with long options...

    Guy> tcpdump currently still uses getopt(), so it doesn't support
    Guy> long options.

    Guy> Should we switch to getopt_long(), and include a BSD-licensed
    Guy> getopt_long() (e.g., one from one of the *BSDs) for platforms
    Guy> that don't have it?  (Glibc's had it for a while, I think
    Guy> recent versions of most of not all of the *BSDs have it, recent
    Guy> versions of OS X have it, and recent versions of Solaris have
    Guy> it, at least.)  

  My plan was to libnetdissect everything.
  Leave "tcpdump.c" being just main() (i.e. option processing), and
provide a net wrapper which could start fresh with getopt_long(), and
a full alphabet of options.  At least 10 letters are reserved because of
various extensions/compatibility with vendor versions...

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