Re: 'private' in pcap-int.h

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Aug 7, 2013, at 6:42 AM, Gisle Vanem <gvanem () broadpark no> wrote:

> 'struct pcap' has a member:
>
> void *private;  /* private data for methods */
>
> Which doesn't work so well when including pcap-int.h
> from a C++ program. The file looks to be meant for C++
> because of:
>
> #ifdef __cplusplus
> extern "C" {
> #endif
>
> Can this be renamed to 'priv'

Yes.  I've checked in a change to do that.

However, note that pcap-int.h should only be included by pcap modules; if there's something in there that applications 
or other libraries are using, they should either stop using it, or it should be provided by the libpcap API (in a form 
that doesn't expose the internal details of particular pcap modules' private data - the whole point of the change is to 
allow modules to have whatever they need as private data without having to change anything in libpcap or in code using 
libpcap).
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