Re: Compatibility Libpcap/Winpcap and timout of

[Aaron Turner <synfinatic () gmail com>]

On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM, Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:

> If you want a timeout, so you don't wait forever for a packet to arrived,
> I'd suggest using select() or poll() on UN*X systems (other than *BSD and
> Mac OS X, where select() and poll() might not work correctly on BPF devices
> - and, in the case of Mac OS X, where poll() doesn't work *at all* on
> "character" devices such as BPF devices or ttys).

Sorry to hijack the thread... but this begs the question:

What is the solution on *BSD/OS X where you want a timeout or need to
listen on multiple pcap_t handles?


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