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Diffstat (limited to 'pcap_loop.3pcap')
| -rw-r--r-- | pcap_loop.3pcap | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/pcap_loop.3pcap b/pcap_loop.3pcap index 70cfaa02..da306931 100644 --- a/pcap_loop.3pcap +++ b/pcap_loop.3pcap @@ -109,7 +109,12 @@ pointer to the first (as given in the .I struct pcap_pkthdr a pointer to which is passed to the callback routine) -bytes of data from the packet. +bytes of data from the packet. The +.I struct pcap_pkthdr +and the packet data are not to be freed by the callback routine, and are +not guaranteed to be valid after the callback routine returns; if the +code needs them to be valid after the callback, it must make a copy of +them. .SH RETURN VALUE .B pcap_loop() returns 0 if |