Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] reading from named pipes on OSX?
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From: Aaron Turner <synfinatic@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 7 Dec 2009 20:04:59 -0800
Reading the man page for tshark indicates that the following is vaild:

mkfifo foo
tshark -i foo &
cat somefile.pcap >foo

Which seems to work on Linux, but not OS X:

Capturing on foo
tshark: Unexpected error from select: Invalid argument

Using 1.2.2 & 1.2.4... is this a known issue?


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