Hi, I would like to compile a list of AIX's bpf flaws and lacking features.
1. non-blocking read does not work; 2. <insert your favorite AIX bpf problem here> thanks for your input, -alexm 22:16 28/04/2005 On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Guy Harris wrote: > Gali Diamant wrote: > > > I expected pcap_dispatch to return since we have set > > the handle to be non blocking. Instead, it doesn't and > > blocks waiting. Is this the correct behavior or is > > that an AIX issue? It doesn't happen on Linux or > > Solaris. > > It's probably an AIX issue; perhaps non-blocking mode doesn't work on > BPF devices on AIX. (AIX's BPF has a number of ways in which it sucks > and in which the BPFs on various BSDs don't; perhaps this is another one.) > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. > - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
