wireshark/caputils/iface_monitor.h

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/* iface_monitor.h
* interface monitor by Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
*
* Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
* By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
* Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
*
* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later*/
#ifndef IFACE_MONITOR_H
#define IFACE_MONITOR_H
#ifdef __cplusplus
extern "C" {
#endif /* __cplusplus */
#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP
/*
* Callback for interface changes.
*
* iface is a pointer to the name of the interface.
*
* up is 1 if the interface is up, 0 if it's down.
*
* XXX - we really want "gone", not "down", where "gone" may include
* "down" if the OS requires an interface to be up in order to start
* a capture on it (as is the case in Linux and in macOS prior to
* Lion), but should also include *gone*, as in "there is no longer
* an interface with this name, so it's neither down nor up".
*
* We also may want other events, such as address changes, so what
* we might want is "add", "remove", and "modify" as the events.
*/
typedef void (*iface_mon_cb)(const char *iface, int up);
/*
* Start watching for interface changes.
*/
int
iface_mon_start(iface_mon_cb cb);
/*
* Stop watching for interface changes.
*/
void
iface_mon_stop(void);
/*
* Get the socket on which interface changes are delivered, so that
* we can add it to the event loop.
*
* XXX - what if it's not a socket or other file descriptor?
*/
int
iface_mon_get_sock(void);
/*
* Call this if something is readable from the interface change socket.
* It will call the callback as appropriate.
*/
void
iface_mon_event(void);
#endif /* HAVE_LIBPCAP */
#ifdef __cplusplus
}
#endif /* __cplusplus */
#endif /* IFACE_MONITOR_H */