Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] display filter causes core dump

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From: Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 7 Oct 1999 16:02:26 -0500
On Thu, Oct 07, 1999 at 03:19:07PM -0500, fred anger wrote:
> 
> decided I wanted to filter out all of them that had deltas less than 1.0
> seconds using "frame.time_delta > 1.0" (not realizing at the time that
> this wasn't really going to do what I wanted) but it caused the
> following error in the xterm I started ethereal from:
> 
> ** ERROR **: file ./dfilter-scanner.l: line 186 (dfilter_lex): should
> not be reached
> aborting...
> Aborted (core dumped)
> 
> I realize this is "user error", but it should be able to handle it.
> Note that in other cases (following the steps above in a different
> order) it caused ethereal to peg the CPU for several minutes before
> returning in an unknown state (meaning I wasn't sure what I was looking
> at).

Thanks. I had overlooked items like that. I'll work on a fix.

--gilbert