Re: Possible initialization error in libpcap

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

On Jan 9, 2013, at 1:29 PM, Derek Cole <derek.cole () gmail com> wrote:

> Well, after tracking down some of the structures being used in the ioctl arguments, and memset() them to zero, I 
> think all of the errors went away without the need to write any additional wrappers other than the pselect() wrapper. 
> Most of those calls were int he bpf-pcap.c file.

That's where the ioctls are done; the other pcap-*.c files would be used on other OSes, so you wouldn't see anything 
there on FreeBSD.

> I am not sure whether that is a worthwhile check-in to make for pcap or not. 

I'd rather fix valgrind.  I'll see if I can beat it into working on Mountain Lion, and contribute wrappers for Darwin; 
as noted, those wrappers should also either Just Work, or work with some changes, on various *BSDs.  (That could also 
allow valgrind to do *more* checks on some of the BPF ioctls.)

(And then I can see whether, on one of my Linux VMs, fix it to get rid of some warnings on Linux as well.)
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