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