- add netmap-libpcap
- add netmap (FreeBSD header files need to be updated with this) - move prototype perl scripts to prototype/ folder - create basic structure for sipcap app (no code yet)
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.TH PCAP_GET_SELECTABLE_FD 3PCAP "5 April 2008"
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.SH NAME
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pcap_get_selectable_fd \- get a file descriptor on which a select() can
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be done for a live capture
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.SH SYNOPSIS
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.nf
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.ft B
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#include <pcap/pcap.h>
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.ft
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.LP
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.ft B
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int pcap_get_selectable_fd(pcap_t *p);
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.ft
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.fi
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.B pcap_get_selectable_fd()
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returns, on UNIX, a file descriptor number for a file descriptor on
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which one can
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do a
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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to wait for it to be possible to read packets without blocking, if such
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a descriptor exists, or \-1, if no such descriptor exists. Some network
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devices opened with
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.B pcap_create()
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and
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.BR pcap_activate() ,
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or with
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.BR pcap_open_live() ,
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do not support
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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(for example, regular network devices on FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.4, and Endace
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DAG devices), so \-1 is returned for those devices.
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.PP
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Note that in:
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.IP
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FreeBSD prior to FreeBSD 4.6;
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.IP
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NetBSD prior to NetBSD 3.0;
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.IP
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OpenBSD prior to OpenBSD 2.4;
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.IP
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Mac OS X prior to Mac OS X 10.7;
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.PP
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.B select()
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and
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.B poll()
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do not work correctly on BPF devices;
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.B pcap_get_selectable_fd()
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will return a file descriptor on most of those versions (the exceptions
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being FreeBSD 4.3 and 4.4), but a simple
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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will not indicate that the descriptor is readable until a full buffer's
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worth of packets is received, even if the read timeout expires before
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then. To work around this, an application that uses
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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to wait for packets to arrive must put the
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.B pcap_t
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in non-blocking mode, and must arrange that the
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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have a timeout less than or equal to the read timeout,
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and must try to read packets after that timeout expires, regardless of
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whether
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.B select()
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or
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.B poll()
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indicated that the file descriptor for the
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.B pcap_t
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is ready to be read or not. (That workaround will not work in FreeBSD
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4.3 and later; however, in FreeBSD 4.6 and later,
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.B select()
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and
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.B poll()
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work correctly on BPF devices, so the workaround isn't necessary,
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although it does no harm.)
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.PP
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Note also that
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.B poll()
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doesn't work on character special files, including BPF devices, in Mac
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OS X 10.4 and 10.5, so, while
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.B select()
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can be used on the descriptor returned by
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.BR pcap_get_selectable_fd() ,
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.B poll()
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cannot be used on it those versions of Mac OS X. Kqueues also don't
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work on that descriptor.
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.BR poll() ,
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but not kqueues, work on that descriptor in Mac OS X releases prior to
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10.4;
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.B poll()
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and kqueues work on that descriptor in Mac OS X 10.6 and later.
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.PP
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.B pcap_get_selectable_fd()
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is not available on Windows.
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.SH RETURN VALUE
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A selectable file descriptor is returned if one exists; otherwise, \-1
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is returned.
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.SH SEE ALSO
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pcap(3PCAP), select(2), poll(2)
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