Subject: Re: Question about libpcap
To: Gerald Lee <glee@force10networks.com>
From: Michael Richardson <mcr@sandelman.ottawa.on.ca>
List: tech-net
Date: 07/23/2007 00:14:51
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>>>>> "Gerald" == Gerald Lee <glee@force10networks.com> writes:
    Gerald> 	We have a unique situation.  An engineer want to use
    Gerald> libpcap to create compile a packet filter.  However, he
    Gerald> wants to use it purely in memory.  The problem comes in that
    Gerald> the application is threaded, and one of the other threads is
    Gerald> blocked on stdin.  This causes the parser to attempt to get
    Gerald> more input from stdin.  He tracked it down to the state of
    Gerald> yyin, and would just as soon directly manipulate it.  Others

  Is this a BSD lex issue, or a libpcap issue?
  If the latter, perhaps tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org would be better.

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