Thanks Meem for your comments. I'll look at the comments and revise as 
needed.

sagun
Peter Memishian wrote:
>  > As there are some clearview team members planning on reviewing the 
>  > changes and currently there are other high priority work ongoing, I am 
>  > extending the code review timer for another two weeks. I'm setting the 
>  > timer to December 13th, 2007.
>  > 
>  > The webrev can be found at:
>  > 
>  > http://cr.opensolaris.org/~sagun/libpcap/
>
> I took a quick look at this.  Some offhand observations:
>
>       * There's too much duplicated code betwen pcap-libdlpi.c and
>         pcap-dlpi.c.  For instance, both strioctl() and the pcap_stats()
>         functions are identical, as is the bufmod-related logic
>         (starting with "Loop through packets") in pcap_read(), and
>         the bufmod configuration in pcap_open_live().  I'd move the
>         relevant bits of logic to a new pcap-streams.c file and call
>         those routines from pcap-*dlpi.c.
>
>       * The linklist structure should be renamed; it's too close to
>         "linked list". 
>
>       * The link chaining logic in list_interfaces() doesn't seem like
>         it would work for more than two links.  In particular, seems
>         like you need:
>
>               if (lwp->lw_list == NULL) {
>                       lwp->lw_list = entry;
>               } else {
>                       entry->ll_next = lwp->lw_list;
>                       lwp->lw_list = entry;
>               }
>
>         (Also, there's no need to initialize `entry' or cast `lwp'.)
>
>       * In pcap_read_libdlpi(), I'm not sure what the special error
>         handling after dlpi_recv() is about.  It looks to be some
>         holdover from the old pcap-dlpi.c code, but I can't see how it
>         applies to dlpi_recv() since dlpi_recv() only calls getmsg()
>         when poll() has indicated there's data to read, and thus
>         it should never get EINTR or EAGAIN -- and if it did, that is
>         an issue that should be handled inside dlpi_recv() itself.
>
>       * Seems error handling would be cleaned up quite a bit by
>         introducing a utility function like:
>
>         static void
>         pcap_libdlpi_err(dlpi_handle_t *dh, const char *func, int err,
>             char *errbuf);
>
>       * Please check for spelling errors -- e.g. "promsic" on lines 330
>         and 341.
>
>       * In pcap_open_live(), `flags' should be removed and DLPI_RAW |
>         DLPI_PASSIVE directly passed into dlpi_open().  Also, the
>         comment above dlpi_open() should be updated to say something
>         more appropriate like "Enable Solaris raw and passive DLPI
>         extensions; see the Solaris dlpi(7P) manpage for details".
>
>       * Surely line 317 is supposed to set `retv' so that line 320 will
>         print something meaningful?
>
>       * Would be good to be consistent with either `ret' or `retv' as
>         a variable to house the return value.
>   


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