Re: Error in the pcap_next_ex(3PCAP) man page

[Denis Ovsienko <denis () ovsienko info>]

On Thu, 26 Mar 2026 10:30:58 -0700
Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote:

> > The man page could give a warning
> > that for historic reasons the two values are the same, but could
> > potentially become different in future.  
>
> They'd only be different if we came out with a libpcap 2.x that was
> source-incompatible and binary-incompatible with libpcap 0.x and 1.x.
> If we did *that*, we might well remove pcap_next() and
> pcap_next_ex(), possibly replacing them with a new API.

So far six functions have been deprecated in libpcap.  If a future
major release removes these functions, it would be an ABI change and
smaller changes like the above could be made in the same go.

-- 
    Denis Ovsienko
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