Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] what does sync_mode mean??

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From: Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 15 Jun 2004 00:42:38 +0200
Li Haijiang wrote:


I found the struct capture_options have the item of sync_mode in the capture.h.
but i don't know when it is in the sync_mode or in the normally mode and then code
in the capture.c file have two different function to call.
-----------the code in the capture.c
if (capture_opts.sync_mode) {	
   /* sync mode: do the capture in a child process */
   return sync_pipe_do_capture(is_tempfile);
   /* capture is still running */
 } else {
   /* normal mode: do the capture synchronously */
   return normal_do_capture(is_tempfile);
   /* capture is finished here */
 }
------------
Please have a look at doc/README.capture, I tried to explain it there (although I didn't implemented it). 

Regards, ULFL