Hello, 2010/1/8 Stéphane Glondu <[email protected]>: > Actually, pcap_payload embeds a pointer outside the ML heap (ML block > with unaligned_tag). I guess it is the libpcap receive buffer. As such, > it is not marshallable nor usable with regular string functions. > However, unsafe_* variants work fine (see pcap_loop.ml example for > example). If you want to use it as a regular string, you'll have to > unsafe_blit the contents into another OCaml string yourself.
Is this documented somewhere? I don't remember having seen this when I used mlpcap (a long time ago). Regards, d. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected]
