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-.TH PCAP_INIT 3PCAP "11 April 2020"
+.TH PCAP_INIT 3PCAP "4 May 2022"
.SH NAME
pcap_init \- initialize the library
.SH SYNOPSIS
returns
.B 0
on success and
-.B \-1
+.B PCAP_ERROR
on failure.
If
-.B \-1
+.B PCAP_ERROR
is returned,
.I errbuf
is filled in with an appropriate error message.
.B PCAP_ERRBUF_SIZE
chars.
.SH BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY
-This function became available in libpcap release 1.10.0. In previous
+This function became available in libpcap release 1.9.0. In previous
releases, on Windows, all strings supplied as arguments, and all strings
returned to the caller, are in the local character encoding.
.SH SEE ALSO