Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] 64-bit pcap timestamp problems

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 8 Aug 1999 18:21:17 -0700
> The original change was in the Linux 2.2.x kernel, I beleive (possibly in
> the 2.1.x kernel).  I'm not sure why they did this.

To avoid the Y2.038K bug?

> This makes sense; however, every application that uses libpcap must be
> careful to define its own timeval structure that has 32-bit ints, instead
> of using the one defined in the system headers.

...or "libpcap" needs to be changed not to use "struct timeval" in
"pcap_pkthdr", and to use instead, say, "bpf_u_int32 ts_sec" and
"bpf_u_int32 ts_usec", and the applications need to refer to "ts_sec"
and "ts_usec" rather than "ts.tv_sec" and "ts.tv_usec".