Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] static vs dynamic column width

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 23:31:12 -0700
> Ok, I should mention that I have not tested the -S option with wiretap so
> one could expect other weird things ...

I suspect the only difference is that "libpcap" just returns -1 if a
read doesn't get all the data it expects, while "wiretap" calls
"abort()".

However, "libpcap" may leave the stream pointer in a the middle of the
partial frame, in which case I wouldn't expect "-S" to work reading with
"libpcap", either - so perhaps "fread()" doesn't leave the stream at EOF
if a read doesn't return all the data asked for.