From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat May 9 23:35:22 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id XAA22071 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:35:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from cheops.anu.edu.au (avalon@cheops.anu.edu.au [150.203.76.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA22066 for ; Sat, 9 May 1998 23:35:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au) Message-Id: <199805100635.XAA22066@hub.freebsd.org> Received: by cheops.anu.edu.au (1.37.109.16/16.2) id AA280192040; Sun, 10 May 1998 16:34:00 +1000 From: Darren Reed Subject: Re: bpf To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 16:34:00 +1000 (EST) Cc: tlambert@primenet.com, fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su, brian@deity.loa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199805091623.JAA00460@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at May 9, 98 09:23:17 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message