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Manual Pages  — PCAP_FILENO

NAME

pcap_fileno - get the file descriptor for a live capture

CONTENTS

SYNOPSIS

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

int pcap_fileno(pcap_t *p);

DESCRIPTION

If p refers to a network device that was opened for a live capture using a combination of pcap_create(3) and pcap_activate(3) , or using pcap_open_live(3) , pcap_fileno() returns the file descriptor from which captured packets are read.

If p refers to a ``savefile'' that was opened using functions such as pcap_open_offline(3) or pcap_fopen_offline(3) , a ``dead'' pcap_t opened using pcap_open_dead(3) , or a pcap_t that was created with pcap_create() but that has not yet been activated with pcap_activate(), it returns PCAP_ERROR.

SEE ALSO

pcap(3)

25 July 2018 PCAP_FILENO (3)

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