Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] 0.8.2 live capture glitch?

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:08:58 -0600
On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> 
> > The capture menu is there, but the "Start..." option is grayed out.
> 
> If the child ("ethereal-capture") process exits - as it should do, when
> the "Stop" button is pressed (the child process, not the parent process,
> draws the capture dialog box), its end of the pipe is closed, so the
> parent should eventually get an end-of-file indication when reading from
> the pipe, so it should declare the capture "done" and re-enable the
> "Capture:Start" menu item.

Interesting.. After I stop the live capture, I still have the words:

	<live capture in progress>

in the label widget on the bottom right.

--gilbert