Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9605] Confirm discarding data before restarting capture
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Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 18:07:20 +0000

changed bug 9605

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Comment # 2 on bug 9605 from 
I often use the restart functionality too, but this time it was not intended
and led to data loss.

I propose to:

 (1) always prompt when changes are made (star is visible in title, e.g. when a
packet comment is added).
 (2) prompt before restarting when an unsaved capture is available. Similar to
the dialog from quitting wireshark.

Option (2) should be controllable by a preference.

Prompting before stop does not seem to useful, it does not lead to data loss
(besides new, uncaptured packets). Let's wait for a feature request before
adding another preference for  this ;)

When looking at the implementation, it seems that capture_restart_cb() must be
modified. test_file_close could be reused, but needs changes.

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