On Dec 10, 2011, at 7:39 AM, abhinav narain wrote: > Can I use pcap_loop when using select,
No. You can, however, use pcap_dispatch(). pcap_loop() loops either indefinitely or until it sees the specified number of packets; it will try to read more packets from the underlying descriptor, and thus potentially block. pcap_dispatch() will read more packets from the descriptor at most once, so it's more appropriate to call if select() or poll() reports the selectable descriptor for a pcap_t as having packets available. Pass it a "cnt" argument of -1, so it processes all the packets in the batch that it reads, and thus does a read at the beginning of each call.- This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
