PCAP_CLOSE(3PCAP)

🎀 NAME 🎀

okay bestie, welcome to the pcap_close(3PCAP) page — pcap_close is the function that closes a capture device or savefile. 💅✨

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

void pcap_close(pcap_t *p);

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so pcap_close() closes the files associated with p and deallocates resources. iconic cleanup moment, no cap. 🫶

this means that, 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. yes bestie, stdin is the exception. 🙈

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pcap(3PCAP) — the pcap manual page, go check it
• pcap_open_offline(3PCAP) — the offline-open manual page, slay

that’s the whole vibe 💖 this page is PCAP_CLOSE(3PCAP), source/version line dated 12 October 2024 — mwah, go forth and close those files 🎀✨