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Date:      Sun, 10 May 1998 16:34:00 +1000 (EST)
From:      Darren Reed <avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au>
To:        mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith)
Cc:        tlambert@primenet.com, fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su, brian@deity.loa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: bpf
Message-ID:  <199805100635.XAA22066@hub.freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <199805091623.JAA00460@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at May 9, 98 09:23:17 am

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In some mail from Mike Smith, sie said:
> 
> Incidentally, if someone would just fix libpcap so that it opens the bpf 
> device read-write (rather than readonly), I'd be happy.  Or explain why 
> it's not, when it's supposed to be?

hmmm, libpcap - pcap = Packet CAPture.  Since when do you write to a file
to capture data from it ?  Seems justifiably read-only to me.


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