Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Patch] Re: capture from a fifo

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Richard van der Hoff wrote:
> Any thoughts on this? Ulf, in particular? At the very least, a 
> clarification of the direction this code is supposed to be going would 
> be appreciated.
>
> To summarise the story so far:
>
> - capture from a fifo doesn't work for tshark
> - I proposed a patch to make tshark use capture_loop_dispatch rather 
> than pcap_dispatch, which handles this more gracefully (and removed some 
> common code between tshark and dumpcap)
> - Ulf rejected this as he felt it was a retrograde step
> - I disagree, and don't understand how he would prefer to have the bug 
> fixed.
>   
... and now it's checked in!

You may check the changes, as I had to apply the patch by hand.

Sorry, but I completely misunderstood you.

The direction is to use dumpcap in tshark as well. The direction is 
therefore to use as much of the capture_loop code in tshark as 
reasonably possible.

BTW: The mkfifo command isn't available on Win32 (even on cygwin), so I 
made this test configurable in config.sh.

Regards, ULFL