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authorru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-13 06:27:20 +0000
committerru <ru@FreeBSD.org>2006-12-13 06:27:20 +0000
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parent1315da38ef063c63141ef76201707daea8140c63 (diff)
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- Fix prototype of bpf_filter().
- Document what passing it a zero buflen argument means.
Diffstat (limited to 'share')
-rw-r--r--share/man/man9/bpf.910
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/share/man/man9/bpf.9 b/share/man/man9/bpf.9
index c7c4b1d..5a3ac07 100644
--- a/share/man/man9/bpf.9
+++ b/share/man/man9/bpf.9
@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
.\"
.\" $FreeBSD$
.\"
-.Dd May 19, 2004
+.Dd December 13, 2006
.Dt BPF 9
.Os
.\"
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@
.Fn bpf_mtap2 "struct bpf_if *bp" "void *data" "u_int dlen" "struct mbuf *m"
.Ft u_int
.Fo bpf_filter
-.Fa "const struct bpf_insn *pc " "u_char *pkt" "u_int *wirelen" "u_int *buflen"
+.Fa "const struct bpf_insn *pc " "u_char *pkt" "u_int wirelen" "u_int buflen"
.Fc
.Ft int
.Fn bpf_validate "const struct bpf_insn *fcode" "int flen"
@@ -217,6 +217,12 @@ argument
is the length of the original packet and
.Fa buflen
is the amount of data present.
+The
+.Fa buflen
+value of 0 is special; it indicates that the
+.Fa pkt
+is actually a pointer to an mbuf chain
+.Pq Vt "struct mbuf *" .
.Pp
The
.Fn bpf_validate
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