Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Lua for windows, need help

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Lars Roland wrote:
> Additionally there is a problem with g_error calls in the hot area. 
As I'm making good progress with dumpcap, we might not have a "hot area" 
in the next days any longer :-)
> On win32 the error message isn't displayed and ethereal terminates 
> immediately without giving any useful information.
>
> This happens for example in proto_register_protocol() in proto.c:3245.
>
> IMO we should have a log handler for such terminating events, which 
> makes sure that the console with the error message is displayed before 
> ethereal is closed.
The log handler itself exists for a long time.

I've added two things in this case:

- open a console regardless of the user settings (if it's not already open)
- wait for a key press before actually terminating

This should solve the problem.

Thanks for pointing to the problem, I've seen this behaviour before but 
didn't thought about the g_error() stuff ...

Regards, ULFL