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Diffstat (limited to 'pcap_loop.3pcap')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap_loop.3pcap | 18 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/pcap_loop.3pcap b/pcap_loop.3pcap index 0eaf6e5e598c..15ad41012b40 100644 --- a/pcap_loop.3pcap +++ b/pcap_loop.3pcap @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ .\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF .\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .\" -.TH PCAP_LOOP 3PCAP "18 October 2014" +.TH PCAP_LOOP 3PCAP "20 January 2017" .SH NAME pcap_loop, pcap_dispatch \- process packets from a live capture or savefile .SH SYNOPSIS @@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ reached when reading from a ``savefile'', is called, or an error occurs. It does .B not -return when live read timeouts occur. +return when live packet buffer timeouts occur. A value of \-1 or 0 for .I cnt is equivalent to infinity, so that packets are processed until another @@ -166,18 +166,18 @@ terminated due to a call to before any packets were processed. It does .B not -return when live read timeouts occur; instead, it attempts to read more -packets. +return when live packet buffer timeouts occur; instead, it attempts to +read more packets. .PP .B pcap_dispatch() returns the number of packets processed on success; this can be 0 if no packets were read from a live capture (if, for example, they were discarded because they didn't pass the packet filter, or if, on -platforms that support a read timeout that starts before any packets -arrive, the timeout expires before any packets arrive, or if the file -descriptor for the capture device is in non-blocking mode and no packets -were available to be read) or if no more packets are available in a -``savefile.'' It returns \-1 if an error occurs or \-2 if the loop +platforms that support a packet buffer timeout that starts before any +packets arrive, the timeout expires before any packets arrive, or if the +file descriptor for the capture device is in non-blocking mode and no +packets were available to be read) or if no more packets are available +in a ``savefile.'' It returns \-1 if an error occurs or \-2 if the loop terminated due to a call to .B pcap_breakloop() before any packets were processed. |