Recently,i was reading the tutorial of winpcap. But the following words confused me. “Why do we use pcap_next_ex() instead of the old pcap_next()? Because pcap_next() has some drawbacks. ” Isn't ex means old? I will be glad if someone can help me!
"ex" stands for "extended". This is a common practice in some libraries, and I think Win32 is the main notorius example thereof.
See this for reference on the Win32 case: Adding -Ex to the name of a type in .Net