Hi, I agree that the modification I want to do is modifying the behaviour of libpcap in a way that the compatibility can't be assured.
What I planned to do was creating a new compilation macro which will be defined if the user wants it (e.g. ./configure --enable-nsec-timestamp) that will modify the pcap_open_offline() function if the macro is defined in order to support nanosecond timestamps ONLY. Since I am not really familiar with the open source world I wanted to know if such a modification could be allowed in the main branch of libpcap or as a plugin. Thank you 2009/5/21 Guy Harris <[email protected]> > > On May 14, 2009, at 11:58 AM, Pierre KARAMPOURNIS wrote: > > Furthermore, if we try to use tools using libpcap to read nsec-pcap files, >> it won't work >> > > What should "work" mean? > > It can't mean "supply time stamps with nanosecond precision", as that would > break source and binary compatibility. There would have to be a different > versions of pcap_open_offline() that causes nanosecond time stamps to be > supplied. > - > This is the tcpdump-workers list. > Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe. > -- Pierre KARAMPOURNIS - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
