Wireshark · Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Is the "-Q" flag for Wireshark useful?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

> > Would anybody miss the current "-Q" flag if it went away?
>
> I wouldn't but test/suite-capture.sh would (it uses it for the  
> "capture
> 10 packets [with the GUI]" test).

We already supply our own getopt() for platforms that don't have it  
(for which, at this point, read "Windows", as I think every version of  
every UN*X on which we run has it).  Perhaps we should supply our own  
getopt_long(), instead, for platforms that don't have *it* (there's a  
BSD-licensed version that modern versions of FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/OS  
X have, and Solaris 10 has a version as well), use it, add long  
options for less-commonly-used options such as that - and add long  
aliases for the existing options.