TODO revision 335640
1335640Shselasky TODO list for libpcap 2335640Shselasky======================= 3335640Shselasky 4335640ShselaskyImportant stuff (to be done before the next release) 5335640Shselasky--------------- 6335640Shselasky 7335640ShselaskyGeneral 8335640Shselasky 9335640Shselasky- configure should not be in Git. Most open source projects have an 10335640Shselasky autogen.sh script to run autoconf etc. after checkout. I think we 11335640Shselasky should stick to the standard. 12335640Shselasky 13335640Shselasky- The source files should be better documented. There is no official 14335640Shselasky design guideline for what is done where. There should be a common coding 15335640Shselasky style (okay, you can guess that by looking at the code) and a guide for 16335640Shselasky what needs to be documented. 17335640Shselasky 18335640ShselaskyLess urgent items 19335640Shselasky----------------- 20335640Shselasky 21335640Shselasky- Better documentation and cleanup of the interface. I am seeing a few 22335640Shselasky problems at the first glance which needs fixing: 23335640Shselasky + pcap_lookupnet makes little to no sense with protocols != IPv4 24335640Shselasky + not very well suited for interactive programs (think ethereal). There 25335640Shselasky should be a way for the application to get a file descriptor which it 26335640Shselasky has to monitor and a callback in pcap which has to be called on 27335640Shselasky activity (XXX - "pcap_fileno()" handles the first part, although 28335640Shselasky "select()" and "poll()" don't work on BPF devices on most BSDs, and 29335640Shselasky you can call "pcap_dispatch()" as the dispatch routine after putting 30335640Shselasky the descriptor into non-blocking mode) 31335640Shselasky + too many functions. There are a lot of functions for everything which 32335640Shselasky violates the KISS principle. Why do we need pcap_strerror, pcap_perror 33335640Shselasky and pcap_geterr? 34335640Shselasky + the manpage has a brief description of each function but where is the 35335640Shselasky big picture? Seems like you need to buy UNP for that... 36