On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 10:03:06AM +0200, Petri Helenius wrote:
> 
> The specific problem with bpf is that one might have a half-full buffer
> of captured data when the select timeout hits. In that case the select
> returns with no FDs ready while I think it really should return with
> the bpf fd. (and if you look at the code on sys/net/bpf.c, there is
> timeout handling towards that goal) but I?ve yet to figure out where it goes
> wrong.
> 
> IMO, at timeout the code should check if bd_slen > 0 and if yes,
> do ROTATE_BUFFERS and bpf_wakeup()

The bpf timeout has nothing to do with the select timeout.  Two separate
facilities.

> The functionality I?m looking for is to get all the packets accumulated, say
> in 1 second in single read regardless of if I got a buffer?s full of data.

Then do a select with no FDs just to get a periodic wakeup.  Then at
wakeup do the bpf read, having set nonblocking and immediate mode so you
don't get stuck in the read.

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