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      1  TODO list for libpcap
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      4 Important stuff (to be done before the next release)
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      7 General
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      9 - configure should not be in the CVS. Most open source projects have an 
     10   autogen.sh script to run autoconf etc. after checkout. I think we 
     11   should stick to the standard. 
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     13 - The source files should be better documented. There is no official 
     14   design guideline for what is done where. There should be a common coding
     15   style (okay, you can guess that by looking at the code) and a guide for
     16   what needs to be documented.
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     18 Less urgent items
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     21 - Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few  
     22   problems at the first glance which needs fixing:
     23   + pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4
     24   + not very well suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There
     25     should be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it
     26     has to monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on
     27     activity (XXX - "pcap_fileno()" handles the first part, although
     28     "select()" and "poll()" don't work on BPF devices on most BSDs, and
     29     you can call "pcap_dispatch()" as the dispatch routine after putting
     30     the descriptor into non-blocking mode)
     31   + too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which
     32     violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror
     33     and pcap_geterr?
     34   + the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the
     35     big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that...
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