Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-cvs] rev 16411: /trunk/: pcap-util-unix.c

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> IMHO it's not a good idea to use eth_close most of the time and only at 
> some places just use close only.
>
> This way:
> it's harder to understand why sometimes close and sometimes eth_close is 
> needed
> it's hard to find missing wrapper occurrences using grep
> if code is copied, it's likely to miss using eth_close when it's needed 
> (but you'll get an error on the Win side, so it's quickly fixed)

Actually, it's not needed if you include <glib.h> - glib.h provides 
open(), close(), etc. wrappers.