Changeset af0918a

Timestamp:

04/03/09 11:19:23 (12 years ago)

Author:

Perry Lorier <perry@…>

Branches:

4.0.1-hotfixes, cachetimestamps, develop, dpdk-ndag, etsilive, getfragoff, help, libtrace4, master, ndag_format, pfring, rc-4.0.1, rc-4.0.2, rc-4.0.3, rc-4.0.4, ringdecrementfix, ringperformance, ringtimestampfixes

Children:

1aa4bf7

Parents:

5745e78

Message:

More clarifications

File:

• lib/libtrace.h.in (modified) (1 diff)

lib/libtrace.h.in

@@ -1027 +1027 @@
  * any other metadata that is part of the capture format.  
  * 
- * @li Metadata header (optional) -- A header that was captured, but was not transmitted over
- * the wire.  Some examples include RadioTap and Linux_sll headers.  This can be retrieved by
+ * @li Metadata header (optional) -- A header containing metadata about a packet that was captured, 
+ * but the metadata was not transmitted over the wire.  Some examples include
+ * RadioTap and Linux_sll headers.  This can be retrieved by
  * trace_get_packet_meta(), or skipped using trace_get_payload_from_meta().
+ * There may be multiple "metadata" headers on a packet.
  *
  * @li Layer 2/Link layer/Datalink header -- This can be retrieved by trace_get_layer2(), or