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On 21/08/2020 20:26, Michael Richardson wrote:
> 
> Ray, I rebased raybellis-gzip-v2 upon libpcap head.
> Do you have a github that I can add as as reviewer?

Do you mean my github a/c name?   That's just "raybellis".

> Mostly I did this because the FreeBSD tests seemed to fail, and I wanted to
> see them work.  I know this has taken forever.
> 
> There are some changes to use charset_fopen() that I think that I managed to
> port across.  Do you have some tests that you could put this through?

Not any more, but I could likely devise some.

> https://github.com/mcr/libpcap/tree/raybellis-gzip-v2
> 
> https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/pull/914/files
> 
> Thank you.
> I hope to merge it next week, but I want to add:
>   ./configure --enable-ioplugin
> 
> and the equivalent for CMake, but I really am CMake-challenged, so I don't
> really understand how to do the equivalent there.

I am also CMake-challenged.   I loathe it as a build system :p

> I've left a comment in the pull request above where we'd #ifdef out.
> 
> I also wonder if we should have a pcap_enableioplugin() option so that
> applications have to opt-in.  I'm just really concerned about opening up
> holes for some setuid() libpcap system.

I share that concern, but don't know how to address it.

Ray


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