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Date:      Tue, 16 Apr 2019 19:03:35 -0400
From:      Ed Maste <emaste@freebsd.org>
To:        Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Shawn Webb <shawn.webb@hardenedbsd.org>, src-committers <src-committers@freebsd.org>,  svn-src-all <svn-src-all@freebsd.org>, svn-src-head <svn-src-head@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r346263 - head/contrib/tcpdump
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On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 11:38, Conrad Meyer <cem@freebsd.org> wrote:
>
> I don't think documenting that makes much sense in general.  It would
> be extremely burdensome to fully document and quickly become
> desynchronized from the code.  It's comparable to OpenBSD pledging
> differently in different paths of programs.

It's probably worth having tcpdump emit a warning if it's not able to
enter capability mode as a result of the options in use, if someone's
interested in proposing a patch.



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