1 TODO list for libpcap 2 ======================= 3 4 Important stuff (to be done before the next release) 5 --------------- 6 7 General 8 9 - configure should not be in Git. 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. 12 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. 17 18 Less urgent items 19 ----------------- 20 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... 36
