Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Ethereal memory leakage fix and feature enhancement

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I checked your patch to add the "-R" flag in, along with an update to
> "doc/ethereal.pod.template" to add a description of it to the man page.

One effect of that patch is that, if you run Ethereal with a "-R" flag,
*all* capture files it reads in will have only packets that match the
"-R" flag filter - even capture files subsequently read in with the
"File/Open" menu item.

Is that what we want?  Or should we, say, offer the ability to change
that filter in the "File/Open" dialog box, so that the next file read in
could have a different filter?