Changeset 1312 for trunk/lib/format_linux.c

Timestamp:

12/03/07 23:22:03 (5 years ago)

Author:

perry

Message:

Clarify why we implement a function then return failure.

File:

• trunk/lib/format_linux.c (modified) (1 diff)

trunk/lib/format_linux.c

@@ -495 +495 @@
 /* Linux doesn't keep track how many packets were seen before filtering
  * so we can't tell how many packets were filtered.  Bugger.  So annoying.
+ *
+ * Since we tell libtrace that we do support filtering, if we don't declare
+ * this here as failing, libtrace will happily report for us that it didn't
+ * filter any packets, so don't lie -- return that we don't know.
  */
 static uint64_t linuxnative_get_filtered_packets(libtrace_t *trace) {