From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun May 10 18:33:56 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA12695 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:33:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com ([210.145.37.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA12683 for ; Sun, 10 May 1998 18:33:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@antipodes.cdrom.com) Received: from antipodes.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by antipodes.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA00587; Sun, 10 May 1998 17:28:24 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199805110028.RAA00587@antipodes.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Darren Reed cc: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith), tlambert@primenet.com, fygrave@freenet.bishkek.su, brian@deity.loa.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: bpf In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 10 May 1998 16:34:00 +1000." <199805100635.XAA22066@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 10 May 1998 17:28:22 -0700 From: Mike Smith 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. That's as may be, however the existence of applications which obtain the BPF file descriptor from libpcap and attempt to write to it tend to indicate that perhaps other platforms don't have such a narrow interpretation of the idea. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message