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diff --git a/lib/libpcap/libpcap/pcap_file.3pcap b/lib/libpcap/libpcap/pcap_file.3pcap new file mode 100644 index 0000000..981451b --- /dev/null +++ b/lib/libpcap/libpcap/pcap_file.3pcap @@ -0,0 +1,59 @@ +.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997 +.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. +.\" +.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without +.\" modification, are permitted provided that: (1) source code distributions +.\" retain the above copyright notice and this paragraph in its entirety, (2) +.\" distributions including binary code include the above copyright notice and +.\" this paragraph in its entirety in the documentation or other materials +.\" provided with the distribution, and (3) all advertising materials mentioning +.\" features or use of this software display the following acknowledgement: +.\" ``This product includes software developed by the University of California, +.\" Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and its contributors.'' Neither the name of +.\" the University nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse +.\" or promote products derived from this software without specific prior +.\" written permission. +.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED ``AS IS'' AND WITHOUT ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED +.\" WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, THE IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF +.\" MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. +.\" +.TH PCAP_FILE 3PCAP "3 January 2014" +.SH NAME +pcap_file \- get the standard I/O stream for a savefile being read +.SH SYNOPSIS +.nf +.ft B +#include <pcap/pcap.h> +.ft +.LP +.ft B +FILE *pcap_file(pcap_t *p); +.ft +.fi +.SH DESCRIPTION +.B pcap_file() +returns the standard I/O stream of the ``savefile,'' if a ``savefile'' +was opened with +.BR pcap_open_offline(3PCAP) , +or +.BR NULL , +if a network device was opened with +.B pcap_create(3PCAP) +and +.BR \%pcap_activate(3PCAP) , +or with +.BR pcap_open_live(3PCAP) . +.PP +Note that the Packet Capture library is usually built with large file +support, so the standard I/O stream of the ``savefile'' might refer to +a file larger than 2 gigabytes; applications that use +.B pcap_file() +should, if possible, use calls that support large files on the return +value of +.B pcap_file() +or the value returned by +.B fileno(3) +when passed the return value of +.BR pcap_file() . +.SH SEE ALSO +pcap(3PCAP) |