PCAP_DUMP_FLUSH(3)

okay bestie, welcome to the PCAP_DUMP_FLUSH(3) page from the Library Functions Manual 💅 this one is short, sweet, and honestly kind of a main character for anyone dumping packets. 🎀

✨ NAME ✨

• pcap_dump_flush — flush to a savefile packets dumped

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

int pcap_dump_flush(pcap_dumper_t *p);

💾 DESCRIPTION 💾

okay so pcap_dump_flush() has one job and it does it slayfully: it flushes the output buffer to the “savefile”, so that any packets written with pcap_dump(3) but not yet written to the “savefile” will be written. that's the whole plot. ✨ no cap.

🎀 RETURN VALUE 🎀

vibe check: pcap_dump_flush() returns 0 on success ✅ and PCAP_ERROR on failure 💀.

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

• pcap(3)
• pcap_dump_open(3)

go read those next, bestie, iykyk 🫶

💖 cute little sign-off: this page is PCAP_DUMP_FLUSH(3) from the Library Functions Manual, dated 25 July 2018. byeee 💅🌸