Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tshark option for reassembled fragment output

[Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mar 28, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Evan Huus <eapache@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 12:41 PM, Hadriel Kaplan <HKaplan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> How about this: we make '-d' usable in one-pass or two-pass modes, based on '-2' etc.; and we make the '-R' automatically-and-only be for two-pass mode, implicitly enabling '-2'.  I know you dislike tshark buffering unless explicitly told to do so, but I really think people don't perceive the difference of buffering vs. not in tshark except for the performance impact - what they perceive is whether the output is what they expected it to be.  Making them add another option switch that basically means "make it work", is kinda silly. :)
> 
> I'd be alright with this.
> 
> Perhaps, however, have -R on its own behave as it currently does (and
> as 1-pass -d will), but print a warning to the effect of "-R on its
> own is deprecated. Did you mean -2R or -d?". This would mean that
> scripts using -R will continue to work as-is (unless they choke trying
> to parse the warning, but that's unlikely since it will be to stderr
> not stdout). At some future date we can decide to either disable
> single-pass -R entirely or have it imply -2.

Sounds fine to me too.

-hadriel