Wireshark · Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9710] New: allow tshark to read from pipe

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Bug ID	9710
Summary	allow tshark to read from pipe
Classification	Unclassified
Product	Wireshark
Version	unspecified
Hardware	All
OS	All
Status	UNCONFIRMED
Severity	Major
Priority	Low
Component	TShark
Assignee	bugzilla-admin@wireshark.org
Reporter	phatina@redhat.com

Created attachment 12521 [details]
Proposed patch for reading from pipes

Build Information:
TShark 1.11.3 (SVNRev 54974 from /trunk)

Copyright 1998-2014 Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org> and contributors.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

Compiled (64-bit) with GLib 2.38.2, with libpcap, with libz 1.2.8, with POSIX
capabilities (Linux), without libnl, with SMI 0.4.8, with c-ares 1.10.0, with
Lua 5.2, without Python, with GnuTLS 3.1.18, with Gcrypt 1.5.3, with MIT
Kerberos, with GeoIP.

Running on Linux 3.12.8-300.fc20.x86_64, with locale en_US.UTF-8, with libpcap
version 1.5.3, with libz 1.2.8.
       Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3520M CPU @ 2.90GHz

Built using gcc 4.8.2 20131212 (Red Hat 4.8.2-7).
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Tshark currently can't read from a pipe. E.g., when using process substitution,
this crashes: tshark -r <(xzcat large_file.pcapng.xz)

Proposed patch makes tshark work, when reading from pipe.

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