On Mon, Oct 18, 2004 at 04:37:41PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote: > Including such an argument at the time the new API is introduced > obviously doesn't introduce compatibility issues for that API. :-) > (I'm actually thinking of an attribute/value list for various open > options in the API, so that additional "arguments" can be introduced as > desired without requiring API changes.)
I think that's a great idea. The promisc option could then use the same method. Bruce Simpson posted (here and to freebsd-net) a patch to add an ioctl to control timestamp behaviour which would also be nicely handled with an attribute/value list scheme. Ed Maste Sandvine Inc. - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://lists.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
