[Winpcap-bugs] Documentation: no description of pcap_fopen_offline()

[Gianluca Varenni]

  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Victor Leitman 
  To: winpcap-bugs at winpcap.org 
  Sent: Tuesday, October 20, 2009 6:38 PM
  Subject: [Winpcap-bugs] Documentation: no description of pcap_fopen_offline()


  The WinPcap 4.1.1 documentation of pcap_open_offline() function mentions the pcap_fopen_offline()  function, which description is missing. 



True. There are still several parts of the WinPcap documentation that need to be reviewed. The main reason is that whenever a function gets added to libpcap (and then exported from WinPcap), I need to manually extract the man pages and create the proper documentation for it into WinPcap. Sometimes I miss some of them.



  Also the WinPcap 4.1.1 announcement email mentions function pcap_hopen_offline(), which if I understand correctly from reading archives, can be used on Windows systems instead of pcap_fopen_offline(). It would be useful if the WinPcap documentation clarifies this point.



pcap_hopen_offline is actually an internal undocumented function, used to properly implement pcap_fopen_offline under windows: due to C-RunTime issues, it's impossible to export pcap_fopen_offline() directly from wpcap.dll.

The main issue here is that pcap_fopen_offline is not documented.

 

  Also, a minor point on inconsistency in the documentation examples in section "Handling offline dump files". The example "Reading packets from a dump file" describes that the file will be opened with the pcap_open_offline() method, but the example source code uses method pcap_open().



You are totally right. I will fix the documentation.



Have a nice day

GV

   

  Regards,

     Victor Leitman

   



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