> [tshark from a fifo]
> Ulf - I notice you made the relevant change here (r16787) - is there any reason why tshark shouldn't use capture_loop_dispatch to do its processing, rather than attempting to use cap_pipe_dispatch or pcap_dispatch directly?
well, there didn't seem to be, so I've made a patch which does exactly this, and which fixes the problem.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=19456
in last year by Gianluca Varenni.
Add partial support for reading from named pipes (currently disabled).
Move utf_8to16() and utf_16to8() to a separate module (unicode-utils.[ch])
so that we don't have to cut and paste code in dumpcap.c.
Fix up whitespace.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=19291
with a pcap_breakloop() call - we don't need to call select() before
calling pcap_dispatch().
Even if we do need to call select(), we don't need to supply it with a
timeout - it's OK if we block indefinitely, as the signal will interrupt
select().
That also means we can pass -1 as the count to pcap_dispatch(), as
pcap_breakloop() will terminate the loop in pcap_dispatch().
Use sigaction() to catch SIGUSR1, so we can make sure that the signal
handler doesn't get reset when the signal is delivered, and that system
calls don't restart when we return from the signal handler.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=18201
has no UI, nor does it need to ensure it processes only one packet at a
time; get rid of the select stuff, and pass a count of -1 to
pcap_dispatch() so it processes a single bufferfull of packets rather
than just one packet at a time.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=18194
by dumpcap and Ethereal (so that, on UN*X, the child process can report
a detailed "can't exec dumpcap" error).
Rename most of the "sync_pipe_XXX_to_parent()" routines, as they're also
in Tethereal, which doesn't have a sync pipe.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=17789
primary and secondary error messages and let the parent worry about how
to display them. This means dumpcap doesn't need stub routines for
generating the formatting tags for the primary and secondary messages.
Have a separate message for capture filter errors, so that the parent
can check whether the capture filter looks like a display filter and
report the appropriate message. This means that dumpcap doesn't need a
stub routine for compiling display filters (a stub routine also means
that Ethereal won't do the check for capture filters that look like
display filters!).
svn path=/trunk/; revision=17465
bypass Wiretap; that means we don't have to run the packet through
wtap_process_pcap_packet() and then undo that conversion in Wiretap if
we're just going to write it out, shortening the code path.
svn path=/trunk/; revision=17461
warnings.
Include "wiretap/libpcap.h" in "capture_loop.h", to get its declarations
of data structures for headers in libpcap files. This lets us remove
the includes of "wiretap/libpcap.h from files including
"capture_loop.h".
Make "log_func_ignore()" in "tethereal.c" static, and declare some of
its arguments unused. Also get rid of an unused variable.
Include <pcap.h> before including "wiretap/wtap-capture.h", to declare
"struct pcap_pkthdr".
svn path=/trunk/; revision=16791
remove a lot of redundant code from tethereal and use (move) stuff from capture_loop.c instead.
concentrate common capture related code in capture_opts.c, e.g. trying to find the right interface to capture from (command line option, preference, first usable) instead of duplicating this code over several files.
remove redundant code from dumpcap.c
this also implements command line option -D (and indexed interfaces at -i) for Ethereal and Dumpcap (as we have it in Tethereal already for a while)
svn path=/trunk/; revision=16787
Gerald Combs