1 TODO list for libpcap 2======================= 3 4Important stuff (to be done before the next release) 5--------------- 6 7General 8 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. 12 13- The source files should be better documented. There is no official 14 design guideline what is done where. There should be a common coding 15 style (okay, you can guess that bye looking at the code) and a guideline 16 what needs to be documented. 17 18Linux kernel interface 19 20- Currently there is a race condition in that a socket is activated at the 21 same time when it is opened - before applying a filter. This has to 22 be corrected so that capture starts when pcap_read is called for the 23 first time. 24 25Less urgent items 26----------------- 27 28- Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few 29 problems at the first glance which needs fixing: 30 + pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4 31 + not very suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There should 32 be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it has to 33 monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on activity 34 + too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which 35 violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror 36 and pcap_geterr? 37 + the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the 38 big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that... 39