Re: [libpcap][patch] appending to a capture

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

> > > > > "Sam" == Sam Roberts <vieuxtech () gmail com> writes:
    >> Yeah, I'd rather that we have a good set of pcap manipulation
    >> tools.  Maybe we just need better pointers to mergecap and
    >> editcap?

    Sam> I don't see extensions to libpcap and a good set of tools as an
    Sam> either/or thing.

    Sam> I'd be pretty happy to see the capabilities of tools such as
    Sam> mergecap, editcap, and tcpslice presented as C callable APIs.

So, you'd like to have pcap_reopen() then?

I think that if give the function a new name, it will be less surprising
to people.  

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