Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: [Ethereal-users] Questions on using ethereal / tethereal

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Jun 2003 19:13:05 -0700
On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 06:10:29PM +0200, Laurent Deniel wrote:
> If everybody is OK with these changes, we might also change the GUI to
> specify "unlimited" instead of 0 ...

That sounds like a good idea to me.  Perhaps we should have a separate
GUI option to select a "ring buffer" with an unlimited number of files,
and, if you select the regular ring buffer, require a minimum of 2
files.  It's not really a "ring buffer" if you have an unlimited number
of files (the topology is different), so I'm inclined to specify it
differently in the UI, even if it's implemented with common code.

That would also get rid of the

	capture_dlg.c: In function `capture_prep_ok_cb':
	capture_dlg.c:903: warning: unsigned value < 0 is always 0
	main.c: In function `main':
	main.c:2051: warning: unsigned value < 0 is always 0

warnings.

There's also a Tethereal warning for that - perhaps we should have
different command-line arguments for "break the capture up into multiple
files" and "use multiple files as a ring buffer".