From: Timothy Hunter <cyclists@...>
Date: 2005-07-30T07:46:02+09:00
Subject: Re: [newbie] Net::Pcap

David Vallner wrote:
> I was thinking of cutting my ruby baby teeth on making something 
> actually generally useful. So I wonder: Would anyone find a libpcap 
> extension any useful? If so, I'd welcome any advice on how to start, 
> possibly some pointers on writing C extensions, or any decent examples 
> of DL usage.
> 
> David
> (as likkle a Ruby newbie as they get)
> 
> 
> 

For C extensions check out README.EXT in the Ruby distribution, Chapter 
21 "Extending Ruby" in the Pickaxe 2nd ed., the builtin classes 
(array.c, string.c, etc.) and C extensions that come with Ruby.