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| author | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-08-22 17:20:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Guy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu> | 2018-08-22 17:20:53 -0700 |
| commit | 409f2293a38c2b9adb2d6097748c95efcdafad2f (patch) | |
| tree | 87be26a7d77e5328bc522facd62c356f9aa1a3ef /pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in | |
| parent | 23b53022733dd486d77f15656876b5b21505daa4 (diff) | |
Add some "what if it's an earlier release" information.
Expand the BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY section to either say "sorry, you
can't get that with earlier releases of libpcap" or "if you need this,
here's what you'd have to do".
Diffstat (limited to 'pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in | 4 |
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in b/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in index 4a8a8624..b86696f0 100644 --- a/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in +++ b/pcap_dump_open.3pcap.in @@ -95,7 +95,9 @@ can be used to get the error text. .PP The .B pcap_dump_open_append() -function became available in libpcap release 1.7.2. +function became available in libpcap release 1.7.2. In previous +releases, there is no support for appending packets to an existing +savefile. .SH SEE ALSO pcap(3PCAP), \%pcap-savefile(@MAN_FILE_FORMATS@) |