PCAP_DUMP_FILE(3)

💖 PCAP_DUMP_FILE 💖

okay so real quick bestie, this is the pcap_dump_file page from the Library Functions Manual, and it's like… a tiny one, but it slays at exactly one job 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

pcap_dump_file — lowkey the whole vibe of this page is: get the standard I/O stream for a savefile being written 🎀

Like, you opened a savefile for writing and now you want the actual stream? That's her. That's the whole function. main character energy 🌸

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🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

FILE *pcap_dump_file(pcap_dumper_t *p);

fr fr that's it, that's the signature. p is your pcap_dumper_t *, and what comes back out is a FILE * 🫶

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👑 DESCRIPTION 👑

okay so pcap_dump_file() returns the standard I/O stream of the ``savefile'' opened by pcap_dump_open(3) ⭐

that's literally the entire description and honestly? iconic. no cap. it gives you the FILE * behind the savefile that pcap_dump_open(3) handed you, and then you go do your thing with it 🔥

ngl bestie, there is no more lore on this page — no options, no return values section, no errors, no env vars, no exit statuses. what you see is what you get 💀

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pcap(3) — the parent page, go say hi 🧚

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and that's a wrap, bestie 💜 this page is from the Library Functions Manual, dated 3 January 2014, and honestly it ate in under a paragraph. mwah 🎀✨