PCAP_CLOSE(3)

💖 PCAP_CLOSE(3) 💖

okay so bestie, welcome to the PCAP_CLOSE(3) page from the Library Functions Manual — this is the “close a capture device or savefile” page, and it’s literally the cleanup queen 👑✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

pcap_close — close a capture device or savefile 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

void pcap_close(pcap_t *p);

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

pcap_close() does the goodbye choreography: it closes the files associated with p and deallocates resources 💅. So, for example, if p refers to a savefile that was opened with pcap_fopen_offline() or pcap_fopen_offline_with_tstamp_precision(), the stream provided to the routine will be closed unless it is stdin 🫶.

🚨 no cap: if that stream is stdin, it is not closed.

💅 SEE ALSO 💅

• pcap(3)
• pcap_open_offline(3)

xoxo, PCAP_CLOSE(3) from the Library Functions Manual, dated 12 October 2024 — she’s iconic, she’s clean, she’s done 💅🎀✨