Add support for Apple specific process information blocks #27
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Hello,
this PR adds support for Apple specific PIB (process information blocks) which contain metadata about the process originating a given packet. These blocks contain some basic info about the processes (process name and command for instance). There is no public documentation about these blocks that I could find but Apple did release their version of
libpcap
which contains some details (see for instance: https://github.com/apple-opensource/libpcap/blob/master/libpcap/pcap/pcap-ng.h#L330).To test this you will need a Mac and capture packets with the PKTAP interface: