From 1b7a8f1c6eb17bba00c9ff198dca528a10c3b61b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: guy <guy>
Date: Wed, 9 Apr 2008 20:20:17 +0000
Subject: Document the extra error information supplied for
 PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE and PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED.

---
 pcap_activate.3pcap | 15 ++++++++++++++-
 1 file changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

(limited to 'pcap_activate.3pcap')

diff --git a/pcap_activate.3pcap b/pcap_activate.3pcap
index 43bad033..6368a8c1 100644
--- a/pcap_activate.3pcap
+++ b/pcap_activate.3pcap
@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap_activate.3pcap,v 1.2 2008-04-09 19:58:02 guy Exp $
+.\" @(#) $Header: /tcpdump/master/libpcap/pcap_activate.3pcap,v 1.3 2008-04-09 20:20:17 guy Exp $
 .\"
 .\" Copyright (c) 1994, 1996, 1997
 .\"	The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.
@@ -61,5 +61,18 @@ or
 may be called with
 .I p
 as an argument to fetch or display the error text.
+If
+.B PCAP_ERROR_NO_SUCH_DEVICE
+or
+.B PCAP_ERROR_PERM_DENIED
+is returned,
+.B pcap_geterr()
+or
+.B pcap_perror()
+may be called with
+.I p
+as an argument to fetch or display an error message giving additional
+details about the error that might be useful for debugging the error if
+it's unexpected.
 .SH SEE ALSO
 pcap(3PCAP)
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