Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Capture -> Stop, missing in Windows?

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 01:33:53 -0700
On Thu, May 08, 2003 at 10:59:17AM +0200, Yaniv Kaul wrote:
> I've just noticed that the menu item Capture->Stop is missing from 
> Windows, while on Unix it exists.
> Any idea why?

Because, on UNIX, it's implemented by sending SIGUSR1 to the child
process doing the capture; SIGUSR1 does not, as far as I know, exist on
windows, and nobody's yet implemented an alternative way of stopping the
capture from the parent process, so there's nothing to make the
"Capture->Stop" menu item do.

We could, I guess, gray it out rather than omitting it, but then people
would ask why we grayed it out rather than asking why we omitted it....
:-)