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   1  TODO list for libpcap
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   4 Important stuff (to be done before the next release)
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   7 General
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   9 - configure should not be in the CVS. Most open source projects have an
  10   autogen.sh script to run autoconf etc. after checkout. I think we
  11   should stick to the standard.
  12
  13 - The source files should be better documented. There is no official
  14   design guideline what is done where. There should be a common coding
  15   style (okay, you can guess that bye looking at the code) and a guideline
  16   what needs to be documented.
  17
  18 Linux kernel interface
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  20 - Currently there is a race condition in that a socket is activated at the
  21   same time when it is opened - before applying a filter. This has to
  22   be corrected so that capture starts when pcap_read is called for the
  23   first time.
  24
  25 - For what is that silly linux-include directory needed? This should
  26   a) be documented
  27   b) not be neccessary. libpcap builds for me without that directory and
  28      I don't think it is our responsible to work around broken build
  29      environments. If we detect a problem configure should fail but that's
  30      about it.
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  33 Less urgent items
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  36 - Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few
  37   problems at the first glance which needs fixing:
  38   + pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4
  39   + not very suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There should
  40     be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it has to
  41     monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on activity
  42   + too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which
  43     violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror
  44     and pcap_geterr?
  45   + the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the
  46     big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that...