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Diffstat (limited to 'pcap-int.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap-int.h | 14 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 5 deletions
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ * OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF * SUCH DAMAGE. * - * @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-int.h,v 1.76 2005-11-24 19:27:42 guy Exp $ (LBL) + * @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap-int.h,v 1.77 2006-02-09 22:26:12 guy Exp $ (LBL) */ #ifndef pcap_int_h @@ -189,9 +189,13 @@ struct pcap { }; /* - * This is a timeval as stored in disk in a dumpfile. + * This is a timeval as stored in a savefile. * It has to use the same types everywhere, independent of the actual - * `struct timeval' + * `struct timeval'; `struct timeval' has 32-bit tv_sec values on some + * platforms and 64-bit tv_sec values on other platforms, and writing + * out native `struct timeval' values would mean files could only be + * read on systems with the same tv_sec size as the system on which + * the file was written. */ struct pcap_timeval { @@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ struct pcap_timeval { }; /* - * How a `pcap_pkthdr' is actually stored in the dumpfile. + * This is a `pcap_pkthdr' as actually stored in a savefile. * * Do not change the format of this structure, in any way (this includes * changes that only affect the length of fields in this structure), @@ -232,7 +236,7 @@ struct pcap_sf_pkthdr { }; /* - * How a `pcap_pkthdr' is actually stored in dumpfiles written + * How a `pcap_pkthdr' is actually stored in savefiles written * by some patched versions of libpcap (e.g. the ones in Red * Hat Linux 6.1 and 6.2). * |