PCAP_GET_TSTAMP_PRECISION(3PCAP)

💖 NAME 💖

pcap_get_tstamp_precision — bestie, this one tells you the time stamp precision you're getting back in your captures 🕰️✨

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

#include <pcap/pcap.h>

int pcap_get_tstamp_precision(pcap_t *p);

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so real talk: pcap_get_tstamp_precision() hands you back the precision of the time stamp that gets returned in packet captures on that pcap descriptor. that's it. that's the whole job. she's a one-trick pony and she's slaying at it 💅

✨ RETURN VALUE ✨

she returns either PCAP_TSTAMP_PRECISION_MICRO or PCAP_TSTAMP_PRECISION_NANO, which is basically the universe telling you that your pcap captures contain time stamps in microseconds or nanoseconds respectively 🎀

not me checking which one I got before doing math on my timestamps… could NOT be me getting it wrong 🙈

💜 BACKWARD COMPATIBILITY 💜

This function became available in libpcap release 1.5.1. In previous releases, time stamps from a capture device or savefile are always given in seconds and microseconds. so if you're on something ancient, that's the vibe, no nano for you 😭

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

• pcap(3PCAP)
• pcap_set_tstamp_precision(3PCAP)
• pcap-tstamp(7)

k that's the whole page bestie 🫶 go forth and timestamp accurately ✨

this was brought to you by the libpcap girlies, dated 23 August 2018 — 3PCAP, periodt 👑💖