check in the generated version, and don't put it into the distribution.
Fix a bunch of references to tcpdump-workers@tcpdump.org to refer to the
new address, tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org.
Fix a reference to the pcap man page from the pcap-filter(4) man page.
Note that patches should be submitted on the SourceForge site, not sent
to the spam-trap patches@tcpdump.org list.
for it, for Mac OS X 10.4 and later. (The script could be useful for
BPF-based systems that don't use devfs as well.) We're not installing it
at this point; that might happen later.
Update HDR in Makefile.in to include all headers.
Add pcap_activate.3pcap to the list of man pages in the 3PCAP section.
Add an EXTRA_DIST variable to include all the files that should go into
the tarball and that aren't in CSRC, HDR, MAN3PCAP, or MAN4.
Use CSRC, HDR, MAN3PCAP, MAN4, and EXTRA_DIST to determine what goes
into the tarball, rather than doing a "make distclean" and putting
everything into the tarball; that way, you can do "make releasetar"
without cleaning out the current directory.
Given that we're not just tarring up the entire source directory, we can
make the tarball directory as a subdirectory of the current directory and
put the tarball into the current directory, rather than putting it into
a (not-entirely-obvious) ../n directory. Clean out the tarball
directory when we're done.
library has to be freed by the library, as an application or other
library using that library might have been built with a different
version of the C runtime library.
the new pcap_create/pcap_activate model, use pcap->opt.source rather
than pcap->md.device in the activate routine (pcap->md.device isn't
set), don't free the pcap_t if the activate routine fails, fix the
error return code paths not to set handle_to_device, fix references to
pcap_close_dos() to refer to pcap_cleanup_dos() as we renamed the
routine.
used to clean up after a failed pcap_activate() call. Convert the
existing close_op routines to cleanup_op routines, and use them to clean
up; rename pcap_close_common() to pcap_cleanup_live_common(), and use it
directly if there's no platform-dependent cleanup needed. That means we
don't have to write the same cleanup code twice (and possibly forget
stuff in the version done on a failed pcap_activate() call).
Have the cleanup routines do whatever is necessary to indicate that
cleanup has been done, and not do any particular cleaning up if it's
already been done (i.e., don't free something if the pointer to it is
null and null out the pointer once it's been freed, don't close an FD if
it's -1 and set it to -1 once it's been closed, etc.).
For device types/platforms where we don't support monitor mode, check
for it and return PCAP_ERROR_RFMON_NOTSUP - but do so after we've
checked whether we can open the device, so we return "no such device" or
"permission denied" rather than "that device doesn't support monitor
mode" if we can't open the device in the first place.
Fix a comment.
know that..."; currently, only pcap_activate() returns them, but we
might want some more warning returns for some other calls, such as the
ones that set filters. It's a little cleaner than "clear out the error
message buffer and, if it's not empty after a successful return, it has
a warning", and a little cleaner than spewing a warning to the standard
error (as that might not be visible to the user if they're running a GUI
application).
that often means "sorry, this platform requires you to run as root or to
somehow tweak the system to give you capture privileges", and
applications might want to explain that in a way that does a better job
of letting the user know what they have to do.
Try to return or PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED for open errors, rather than
just returning PCAP_ERROR, so that the application can, if it chooses,
try to explain the error better (as those two errors are the ones that
don't mean "there's probably some obscure OS or libpcap problem", but
mean, instead, "you made an error" or "you need to get permission to
capture").
Check for monitor mode *after* checking whether the device exists in the
first place; a non-existent device doesn't support monitor mode, but
that's because it doesn't, well, exist, and the latter would be a more
meaningful error.
Have pcap_open_live() supply an error message for return values other
than PCAP_ERROR, PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE, and PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED -
those all supply error strings (PCAP_ERROR because it's for various OS
problems that might require debugging, and the other two because there
might be multiple causes).
captures, set the socket buffer size to the value specified by
pcap_set_buffer_size() if a value was set.
Clean up if memory buffer allocation fails on Linux.
to 1.0, might as well go with the place where Red Hat stuck the header
at one point and where the header "officially" resides.
(We should put a "backwards compatibility" note into pcap.3pcap.)
functions plus an overall man page for libpcap, and put them all into
section 3PCAP. That means you can actually do "man pcap_open_live" and
get something meaningful, rather than having to do "man pcap" and then
scroll through all the other stuff in the man page.
guy