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TODO list for libpcap
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Important stuff (to be done before the next release)
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General
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- configure should not be in the CVS. Most open source projects have an
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autogen.sh script to run autoconf etc. after checkout. I think we
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should stick to the standard.
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- The source files should be better documented. There is no official
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design guideline for what is done where. There should be a common coding
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style (okay, you can guess that by looking at the code) and a guide for
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what needs to be documented.
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Linux kernel interface
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- Currently there is a race condition in that a socket is activated at the
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same time it is opened - before applying a filter. This has to
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be corrected so that capture starts when pcap_read is called for the
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first time.
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Less urgent items
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- Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few
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problems at the first glance which needs fixing:
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+ pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4
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+ not very well suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There
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should be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it
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has to monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on
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activity (XXX - "pcap_fileno()" handles the first part, although
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"select()" and "poll()" don't work on BPF devices on most BSDs, and
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you can call "pcap_dispatch()" as the dispatch routine after putting
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the descriptor into non-blocking mode)
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+ too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which
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violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror
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and pcap_geterr?
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+ the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the
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big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that...
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