On 12/29/2011 09:27 PM, Guy Harris wrote: > > Setting errno to 0 before calling them, and, if they return -1, > checking the value of errno *might* work. No guarantees, and bear in > mind that errno values for various conditions are > platform-dependent. > > Ultimately, there should perhaps be different APIs, specified to > return PCAP_ERROR_ values on error, so that [...]
After taking a look at the libpcap code, it seems that a straightforward way to incorporate the functionality I was mentioning would be to add to pcap_t a "status" member, and add right before every sentence that writes to handle->errbuf a sentence that writes the corresponding code to handle-status. Then a function "pcap_geterrcode()" would simply return handle->status. Please let me know what you think, and if you'd be interested in patches that implement the aforementioned functionality (I'd be interested in doing the work if there's interest to eventually commit it). Thanks! Best regards, -- Fernando Gont e-mail: [email protected] || [email protected] PGP Fingerprint: 7809 84F5 322E 45C7 F1C9 3945 96EE A9EF D076 FFF1 - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
