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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Knochner
Sent: den 7 februari 2013 16:59
To: wireshark-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows?
On 2013-02-06 22:52, Guy Harris wrote:
>> 2) it's easier to get them to open About -> Wireshark than to figure
>> up whatever tool is appropriate on their particular OS or to otherwise
>> get the CPU information.
>
>right, but why build that into wireshark with all "hassles" of interoperability?
>
>> However, there's other information that might be useful, such as bus
>> speeds, memory speeds, etc.; I doubt we want to gather a ton of
>> information about that.
>
>why not have a 'portable' script (perl, python, lua) that scans the OS for different available system tools,
>gathers the data and reports back whatever it finds (lsb_release -a, uname -xyz, cat /proc/cpu, systctl -a,
>etc.).
>Windows
>however, would need some special treatment, but adjusting a script should be easier than adding the same
>functionality to the Wireshark code.
>
>And asking the user to run 'crash_report.py' from the install directory should be no problem, as the user has
>an interest in getting the problem fixed.
>
>Just a few thoughts ....
>
>Regards
>Kurt
I'll just let this one rest in peace then.
Regards
Anders
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