wireshark/capture_sync.h

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/* capture_sync.h
* Synchronisation between Wireshark capture parent and child instances
*
* $Id$
*
* Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
* By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
* Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
*
* This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
* modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
* as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2
* of the License, or (at your option) any later version.
*
* This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
* but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
* MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
* GNU General Public License for more details.
*
* You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
* along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
* Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
*/
/** @file
*
* Sync mode capture (internal interface).
*
* Will start a new Wireshark child instance which will do the actual capture
* work.
*/
#ifndef __CAPTURE_SYNC_H__
#define __CAPTURE_SYNC_H__
/**
* Start a new capture session.
* Create a capture child which is doing the real capture work.
* The various capture_input_... functions will be called, if something had
* happened.
*
* Most of the parameters are passed through the global capture_opts.
*
* @param capture_opts the options
* @return TRUE if a capture could be started, FALSE if not
*/
extern gboolean
sync_pipe_start(capture_options *capture_opts);
/** User wants to stop capturing, gracefully close the capture child */
extern void
sync_pipe_stop(capture_options *capture_opts);
/** User wants to stop the program, just kill the child as soon as possible */
extern void
sync_pipe_kill(capture_options *capture_opts);
/** does the parent signalled the child to stop */
#ifdef _WIN32
extern gboolean
signal_pipe_check_running(void);
#endif
#endif /* capture_sync.h */