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+/* iface_monitor.h
+ * interface monitor by Pontus Fuchs <pontus.fuchs@gmail.com>
+ *
+ * Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
+ * By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
+ * Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later
+ */
+#ifndef IFACE_MONITOR_H
+#define IFACE_MONITOR_H
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+extern "C" {
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
+
+#ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP
+
+/*
+ * Callback for interface changes.
+ *
+ * iface is a pointer to the name of the interface.
+ *
+ * up is 1 if the interface is up, 0 if it's down.
+ *
+ * XXX - we really want "gone", not "down", where "gone" may include
+ * "down" if the OS requires an interface to be up in order to start
+ * a capture on it (as is the case in Linux and in macOS prior to
+ * Lion), but should also include *gone*, as in "there is no longer
+ * an interface with this name, so it's neither down nor up".
+ *
+ * We also may want other events, such as address changes, so what
+ * we might want is "add", "remove", and "modify" as the events.
+ */
+typedef void (*iface_mon_cb)(const char *iface, int added, int up);
+
+/*
+ * Start watching for interface changes.
+ */
+int
+iface_mon_start(iface_mon_cb cb);
+
+/*
+ * Stop watching for interface changes.
+ */
+void
+iface_mon_stop(void);
+
+/*
+ * Get the socket on which interface changes are delivered, so that
+ * we can add it to the event loop.
+ *
+ * XXX - what if it's not a socket or other file descriptor?
+ */
+int
+iface_mon_get_sock(void);
+
+/*
+ * Call this if something is readable from the interface change socket.
+ * It will call the callback as appropriate.
+ */
+void
+iface_mon_event(void);
+
+#endif /* HAVE_LIBPCAP */
+
+#ifdef __cplusplus
+}
+#endif /* __cplusplus */
+
+#endif /* IFACE_MONITOR_H */