Re: How to check if pcap_t is really free?

[Gert Doering <gert () greenie muc de>]

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 07:44:00PM +0300, Nadav Vinik wrote:
> After pcap_close handle is not NULL  since the following printf is not print
>
> thanks
> Nadav
>
> pcap_close(handle);
>         if(handle == NULL) {

In C, this will never ever change the value of "handle", unless 
pcap_close() is a macro, which it isn't.

This is not pascal, we have no way for a function to modify it's
arguments silently (you'd need to pass a pointer, &handle, to achiee
that)

gert

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