Re: Checking for specific return errors in libpcap I/O functions

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Dec 30, 2011, at 6:21 AM, Fernando Gont wrote:

> 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.

That would make sense.  If you want to work on an implementation, send us the patches (or attach them to the tracker 
item you filed on this).
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