On Mon, Nov 18, 2013 at 4:22 PM, Guy Harris <g...@alum.mit.edu> wrote:
> > On Nov 17, 2013, at 9:38 PM, Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn <bvan...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > libpcap version: 1.4.0 (on archlinux) > > > > Is it possible to have multiple call to "pcap_open_live()" followed by > > pcap_close() ? > > Yes, modulo bugs in libpcap or libraries it uses. > > > It seems like pcap_close() doesn't cleanly close opened resources, if you > > strace the following program, you will see file descriptors growing up. > > Bug in the "support on Linux for USB-attached CANbus devices" code; fixed > in the libpcap trunk, and will be fixed in the 1.5 release when it comes > out. > I've just tested against libpcap commit 11031d0f71387161c282248cddc2fa0f7bf014ce (Mon Nov 11 11:21:43 2013 -0800) that i got from here https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap.gitand the problem still exists. I'm still not sure if the problem comes from my distro or the libpcap code. If you can't reproduce i would say that the problem comes from my distro, but i'm not sure where to look. -- Benjamin Vanheuverzwijn _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
