Add follow mode for growing pcap files#18
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Summary
follow_filesupport toPacketStreamerso pcap files can be polled for appended packets after EOF--follow/--follow-timeoutin the simple packet print example and document the live-updating pcap usageFixes #12.
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py -m py_compile chains\sources\packet_streamer.py chains\sources\packet_streamer_follow_file_test.py examples\simple_packet_print.pypy -m flake8 chains\sources\packet_streamer.py chains\sources\packet_streamer_follow_file_test.py examples\simple_packet_print.pypy -m pytest chains\sources\packet_streamer_follow_file_test.py -qgit diff --checkNote: full local collection is still limited on my Windows/Python 3.13 environment because the current base branch imports
pcapydirectly andpcapyis not installed there. The new follow-mode test injects a fakepcapymodule so the follow/reopen behavior is covered without native libpcap dependencies.