>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <[email protected]> writes:
>> So, you'd like to have pcap_reopen() then?
Guy> What would pcap_reopen() do? Mark's new API has a reasonable
Guy> name given what it does:
Guy> 1) it returns a pcap_dumper_t, not a pcap_t, so it
Guy> should have "dump" in its name;
Yes, I agree, it should have that name.
Guy> 2) it opens an existing pcap file for appending, so it
Guy> should have "append" in its name.
I agree that I picked the wrong name.
I think that Darren and others (including me) think that this patch
would have changed pcap_dump_open() to always append if the file already
existed.
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