Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CRITICAL: Ethereal 0.10.10 Locks up Windows XP Solid!
Sorry, guys. You've made your point. Pent up frustration on my part. :-)
Anyhow, I have now reverted to 0.10.9. Nothing more I can contribute at
this point - especially if Microsoft might have a part in this pie.
Thanks.
Ulf Lamping wrote:
Well, telling us there's a bug in the new Ethereal release and someone
has to fix it isn't very helpful either.
Joerg Mayer wrote:
I don't know how much you know about operating systems. One of the
requirements
for an OS like Win XP is, that it is the OS job to make sure that a users
process *MUST NOT* be able to lock the system hard. So if a user process
is capable of locking the system, this is definitely an *OS BUG*. It may
be *triggered* by a faulty application, but it first and formost still is
an OS bug. An OS bug may be some kernel bug or, for example, a driver bug.
In this specific case, this means the following:
In case there truly is a hard lock of your machine (and not just the
desktop), then this is an OS bug. The actual bug may either be in the
M$ provided parts of the OS or in the driver that comes with WinPcap.
So in the case there is a bug in Ethereal that *triggers* the OS bug, it
is *very important* that the OS bug be found and fixed too!
