On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 12:43 PM, Jakub Zawadzki <darkjames...@darkjames.pl> wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, May 07, 2012 at 08:24:10AM -0700, Richard Sharpe wrote: >> I am looking at adding support for pcap-ng to dumpcap.c so it can be >> read directly from pipes. > > I have question :) > > Do we really need to "capture" from pipes in dumpcap? > Wiretap already support reading pcap-ng, and many other file formats. > It doesn't support reading from pipes, but implementing it in dumpcap > just because of it looks like workaround for me.
There are some differences in reading from pipes ... in particular, the state machine is somewhat interesting. > So is it *really* needed feature or just workaroud for wiretap? > > If workaround, wouldn't be better to add support for pipes in wiretap? If it can be done, sure ... meanwhile, since I think I know what to do, I will continue with my efforts :-) -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
