On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 10:10:15AM +1100, Shaun wrote: > On another AIX related note, for our product we'll need to modify > pcap-bpf.c to be able to load the bpf driver in the same way as IBMs > libpcap.a does. I notice the existing comment about it being 'not > necessarily' documented, does this mean that if I implement this feature > it won't be accepted as a patch to the main line?
No, it means that if you implement the future we might be truly impressed that you managed to figure out how to do it, given that you might have had to reverse-engineer an undocumented AIX interface in order to do it. The mere fact that a change causes libpcap to use an undocumented interface would hardly cause us not to include that change - there's plenty of reverse-engineered stuff in there already. We might be more likely to check that code in if it were tested on both a 4.x and 5.x version of AIX, as per the "although the code to do so might be version-dependent, alas" comment - and if the code only works on some releases, we might have to figure out some way to cause it to be used only on those releases (the alternative might be to leave it out). - This is the TCPDUMP workers list. It is archived at http://www.tcpdump.org/lists/workers/index.html To unsubscribe use mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?body=unsubscribe
