Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] While writing to a pipe, getting some errorneous extra bytes between packets ?!?

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Guy Harris wrote:

> John McDermott wrote:
>
> > It is possible that stdout is not being set to binmode by ethereal. I 
> > do not have a Cygwin system set up with a compiler to test it, but 
> > maybe that is at least part of the issue.
>
>
> Yeah, I was thinking the same thing.  I'm not sure how it would cause 
> the extra gunk at the end of each packet, but even if that's *not* the 
> problem, we should be doing that anyway (WinDump does).

Agree, but how to set stdout into binary mode, any examples?

I could have a try if someone tells me how to do it :-)

> We should perhaps also not close the FILE * to which we're writing if 
> it's the standard output (I think tcpdump/WinDump are doing that as 
> well).
We're only closing stdout just before we're exiting the program, so this 
shouldn't be a problem in my eyes.

Regards, ULFL