Re: Should applications close pcap_get_selectable_fd()?

["Mark Delany" <fzx () xray emu st>]

On 13Aug26, Guy Harris apparently wrote:

> it could be, but is not guaranteed to be, the same file descriptor

Exactly my thoughts. We don't know anything about the relationship and shouldn't assume otherwise.

> It should probably just say "don't do anything with this descriptor other than handing
> it to sele> ct()/poll()/epoll()/some kqueue/whatever...

Either works for me. What would you say about pcap_fileno() as the manpage currently
implies pretty tight coupling?

> Please file an issue on this at https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/issues to
> serve as a reminder. (And if you have a change to the manual page that you'd like to
> suggest, feel free to file a pull request.)

Will do (at least for one of those).


Mark.
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