Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Next steps for privilege separation, some capture engine ques
On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 22:31:17 +0100, Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx> wrote:
2.) Enable the capture child code to handle the multiple files feature,
as this seems to be the last "big" feature missing before being able to
always use the child mode for capturing :-)
3.) Always use the child mode for capturing, regardless of the "Update
list of packets in Real Time" setting ;-)
...
Before it comes to 3.), 4.) and 5.) I have to do some more research.
...
To 2.) How do I bring it to handle multiple files in capture child mode?
The main problem I have is: how do I get the "last valid" ringbuffer
filename from the capture child back into the main Ethereal task?
Could you tell it via the sync_pipe? There may be some issues if the
child ends ungracefully, however. To avoid that, perhaps you could have
the client write it to a file in /tmp (or %TEMP% or whatever) each time it
opens a file.
--john
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