Re: [tcpdump-workers] Passing the PCAP file descriptor to another

2006-10-24 Thread Sebastien Raveau
On Monday 23 October 2006 10:27, Guy Harris wrote: > > * first I have to include the pcap-int.h file in order to be able to mess > > with Libpcap's internals, starting with pcap_t::fd, and as you (may not) > > know this file never gets installed in /usr/include :) > > ...because libpcap's

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Passing the PCAP file descriptor to another

2006-10-23 Thread Guy Harris
Sebastien Raveau wrote: I'm currently trying to pass the file descriptor of a live capture to another process, so that I can have a very small (as in "auditable") privileged process able to call pcap_open_live() on the one hand, and a big/fat/ugly/gui process on the other hand running all the

[tcpdump-workers] Passing the PCAP file descriptor to another process

2006-10-22 Thread Sebastien Raveau
Greetings everybody :) I'm currently trying to pass the file descriptor of a live capture to another process, so that I can have a very small (as in "auditable") privileged process able to call pcap_open_live() on the one hand, and a big/fat/ugly/gui process on the other hand running all the p