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Diffstat (limited to 'pcap/pcap.h')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap/pcap.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/pcap/pcap.h b/pcap/pcap.h index 9385e4e9..7649eab9 100644 --- a/pcap/pcap.h +++ b/pcap/pcap.h @@ -550,12 +550,12 @@ PCAP_API int pcap_bufsize(pcap_t *); PCAP_API FILE *pcap_file(pcap_t *); #ifdef _WIN32 /* - * This returns a HANDLE, cast to an int; UN*X code that uses the - * result of pcap_fileno() will probably not work on Windows. - * We keep it around for backwards compatibility, but also provide - * pcap_handle(), which returns a HANDLE. + * This probably shouldn't have been kept in WinPcap; most if not all + * UN*X code that used it won't work on Windows. We deprecate it; if + * anybody really needs access to whatever HANDLE may be associated + * with a pcap_t (there's no guarantee that there is one), we can add + * a Windows-only pcap_handle() API that returns the HANDLE. */ -PCAP_API HANDLE pcap_handle(pcap_t *); PCAP_API int pcap_fileno(pcap_t *) PCAP_DEPRECATED(pcap_fileno, "use 'pcap_handle'"); #else /* _WIN32 */ |