Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 10:46:12 -0800 From: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@efn.org> To: Jason Slagle <raistlin@tacorp.net> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: PCAP Open BPF R/W? Message-ID: <20031026184612.GF558@funkthat.com> In-Reply-To: <20031025115710.Q647@mail.tacorp.net> References: <20031025115710.Q647@mail.tacorp.net>
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Jason Slagle wrote this message on Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 11:58 -0400:
> Could someone consider applying the following to the in tree pcap? It
> makes it possible to write to the pcap fd to send packets out the
> interface. Some simulators expect this ability to properly do
> networking..
You should probably add code to fall back to O_RDONLY if the O_RDWR
open fails incase an admin has sent read permissions on /dev/bpfX,
but not write for a group or something.
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