Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Updates to Ethereal and (passable) real-time display

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gramirez@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 15:34:51 -0500
On Thu, Apr 29, 1999 at 03:19:07PM -0500, John McDermott wrote:
> 
> 
> I did find a bug in the code, however.  In capture.c in main_realize-cb is
> this code:
>   if( cf.save_file)
>     capture();
>   else
>     capture();

That's probably a remnant of the changes I made to how capturing works.
That is, before, you really did need a "cf.save_file" in order to
capture. But now you don't. So that can all be reduced to one line:

capture()

and the capture routine will save trace in a temporary file.
 
> Gilbert, should I sent the changes to you?  You can decide what to do with
> them.  I can only test under Linux for now.

Please post them to ethereal-dev so that anyone who's interested can play
with them. I'll definitely try it on Solaris 2.6.

--gilbert