>
>So it looks as if interactive applications might be able to, at least on
>BSD, Solaris, and Linux, do a "select()" or "poll()" on the pcap_t file
>descriptor in the main loop, and, with the aid of a timeout, work around
>the BSD problem - the timeout is established regardless of what platform
>you're on, so you don't even have to #ifdef it.
maybe, but the problem is that on most BSD platforms, the timeout
is implemented via a sleep(_timeout_), and the associated select
timeout only works `marginally'... the select will only be awoken
when the buffer fills, not when the timeout has passed.
mts.
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