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On Aug 21, 2020, at 2:48 PM, Denis Ovsienko via tcpdump-workers
<tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org> wrote:
> The man page says:
>
> (In older versions of libpcap, the behavior when cnt was 0
> was undefined; different platforms and devices behaved
> differently, so code that must work with older versions of
> libpcap should use -1, not 0, as the value of cnt.)
>
> Would it make sense to move this paragraph to a BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
> section and to tell which specific version started to recognise 0 as a
> valid value?
That's where other "some of what this manual page says doesn't apply to older
versions of libpcap" items go, so it'd make sense.
The PACKET_COUNT_IS_UNLIMITED(), which is what pcap modules should now be
using, was introduced in libpcap 1.5, so the first version where either 0 or -1
should work is 1.5.
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