From: Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>
Date: Mon, 7 Sep 2009 23:49:10 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Note that we might not get an interface drop count from /proc/net/dev.
X-Git-Tag: libpcap-1.1.0~84
X-Git-Url: https://git.tcpdump.org/libpcap/commitdiff_plain/806f42441a726fccd7baaa455f1af323b2585729

Note that we might not get an interface drop count from /proc/net/dev.
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diff --git a/pcap-linux.c b/pcap-linux.c
index d2f7c51e..aeae6de9 100644
--- a/pcap-linux.c
+++ b/pcap-linux.c
@@ -1723,7 +1723,8 @@ pcap_stats_linux(pcap_t *handle, struct pcap_stat *stats)
 	 *	"ps_drop" is not supported.
 	 *
 	 *	"ps_ifdrop" is supported. It will return the number
-	 *	of drops the interface reports in /proc/net/dev
+	 *	of drops the interface reports in /proc/net/dev,
+	 *	if that is available.
 	 *
 	 *	"ps_recv" doesn't include packets not yet read from
 	 *	the kernel by libpcap.