On 11/07/2018 04:15, Guy Harris wrote:
> On Jul 10, 2018, at 1:31 AM, Denis Ovsienko <de...@ovsienko.info> wrote:
> 
>> I have been looking at the man page for pcap_set_protocol() for some time. 
>> The man page explains the function is a Linux-specific extension. Would it 
>> be better to rename the function to something like pcap_set_linux_protocol() 
>> before it is too late? The function was added to the master branch in June 
>> 2017 (libpcap pull request #595) and it has not made it into a libpcap 
>> release yet.
> 
> Or pcap_linux_set_protocol()/pcap_set_protocol_linux(); perhaps in cases 
> where we add platform-specific functions, put the platform name after pcap_ 
> or at the end of the name, to have a general pattern (it's too late for some 
> of the Windows-specific ones, but many of them are either obsolete with 
> generic replacements, Windows-specific because of inherent UN*X vs. Windows 
> differences so it's somewhat implied, or no longer supported).

I'd rather pcap_set_protocol_linux(), because we already have functions like
pcap_activate_linux(), pcap_can_set_rfmon_linux(), pcap_cleanup_linux(), 
pcap_inject_linux(),
pcap_read_linux(), pcap_set_datalink_linux(), pcap_setdirection_linux(), 
pcap_setfilter_linux(),
pcap_stats_linux().
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