> It certainly doesn't on my FreeBSD machine, as the "fstat()" in
> "ascend_open" in "wiretap/ascend.c" doesn't even compile if HAVE_LIBZ is
> defined - you can't do a "fileno()" on a "void *" - so with HAVE_LIBZ
> defined, the Ascend code, and thus Wiretap, and thus Ethereal, didn't
> even build. (I wouldn't expect it to build anywhere; did it build
> somehow?)
Yeah, it builds fine on Linux - don't know how, but it does. But I saw
this problem when I was building on Solaris, so I want to fix it.
> Now, that "fileno()" is done so that the file's inode change time can be
> found, which is a hack to work around the fact that not all Ascend
> capture files appear to have time stamps any better than "it's been this
> long since I was booted"; *if* there were some way of getting absolute
> time and date stamps out of "wandsession" files, that wouldn't be
> necessary - other capture files, such as one a friend took on his
> Pipeline, have date/time stamps in them, although either the clock in
> his Pipeline wasn't working or he wasn't keeping it set, as it thinks
> the capture was taken in 1991, when it was done this year.
Currently I'm planning to change this so that the first packet
captured starts out with a time of 0 and all other packets are
relative to this. This will eliminate the need for the fstat, and
should work then.
Thoughts?
-Ashok
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