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authorElliott Hughes <enh@google.com>2015-10-19 18:07:04 -0700
committerElliott Hughes <enh@google.com>2015-10-20 14:06:47 -0700
commitd8845d7191ca81aae8aab4c29410fc8a3d012687 (patch)
tree93eface1b79d0172beec96c422f5921661455849 /pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in
parentc442bf68e06f961ad0f8fc5a7d19e0984985ea30 (diff)
downloadlibpcap-d8845d7191ca81aae8aab4c29410fc8a3d012687.tar.gz
Upgrade to libpcap 1.7.4.
Bug: http://b/24902618 Change-Id: I1bb6c1163b573eb01b4bed7c494a6d447e8d45cf
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1 files changed, 13 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in b/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in
index 2a5dc9de..0b2e3c62 100644
--- a/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in
+++ b/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in
@@ -1,5 +1,3 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in,v 1.1 2008-10-23 05:56:59 guy Exp $
-.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997
.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
.\"
@@ -31,6 +29,7 @@ pcap_dump_open, pcap_dump_fopen \- open a file to which to write packets
.LP
.ft B
pcap_dumper_t *pcap_dump_open(pcap_t *p, const char *fname);
+pcap_dumper_t *pcap_dump_open_append(pcap_t *p, const char *fname);
pcap_dumper_t *pcap_dump_fopen(pcap_t *p, FILE *fp);
.ft
.fi
@@ -43,7 +42,7 @@ the same format as those used by
.BR tcpdump (1)
and
.BR tcpslice (1).
-The name "-" in a synonym
+The name "-" is a synonym
for
.BR stdout .
.PP
@@ -62,9 +61,19 @@ or returned by an earlier call to
.BR pcap_open_live() ,
or
.BR pcap_open_dead() .
-The link-layer type and snapshot length from
+The time stamp precision, link-layer type, and snapshot length from
.I p
are used as the link-layer type and snapshot length of the output file.
+.PP
+.B pcap_dump_open_append()
+is like
+.B pcap_dump_open
+but does not create the file if it does not exist and, if it does
+already exist, and is a pcap file with the same byte order as the host
+opening the file, and has the same time stamp precision, link-layer
+header type, and snapshot length as
+.IR p ,
+it will write new packets at the end of the file.
.SH RETURN VALUES
A pointer to a
.B pcap_dumper_t