RETURN VALUES > Select() returns the number of ready descriptors that are contained in > the descriptor sets, or -1 if an error occurred. If the time limit > expires, select() returns 0. If select() returns with an error, > includ- > ing one due to an interrupted call, the descriptor sets will be unmodi- > fied and the global variable errno will be set to indicate the error. > > so it's one of those APIs. > > What you should do is to, if select() returns -1 *and* errno is EINTR, > just ignore the error and continue looping. > > Ya, I did that in the morning ... it works now.
> > Also, it keeps printing ": Resource temporarily unavailable" > > though I don't have any error statement to be printed. > > What is "it"? Your program? Or just *some* program? > Its the return statement of perror. I removed it. It works fine now. But how do I know, how much packets is my program dropping? using pcap_stats ? I already have 15% RAM being eaten by the program, so I can't actually increase the buffer size to save packets in between select switches. Abhinav - This is the tcpdump-workers list. Visit https://cod.sandelman.ca/ to unsubscribe.
