Re: [Patch] pcap-dos.c

[Gisle Vanem <gvanem () broadpark no>]

"Guy Harris" <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> So what *is* this case?  The error message is "Cannot use different 
> devices simultaneously"; does that mean that you can have multiple 
> instances of the same device open at the same time, but you can't have 
> instances of more than one device open at the same time?

At least with a packet-driver (not tested other types) one can have 
> 1 instances open at the same time. But I'm not sure it's important
to be able to open 2 pcap-handles on DOS (since we have no threads etc).
We could probably leave the error-code as-is.

--gv
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