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

2008-02-22 Thread Guy Harris
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

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

2008-02-20 Thread Jeff Morriss
Guy Harris wrote: > If you specify the "-Q" flag, it starts a capture immediately and, when > you stop the capture, Wireshark exits. [...] > 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

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

2008-02-19 Thread Guy Harris
If you specify the "-Q" flag, it starts a capture immediately and, when you stop the capture, Wireshark exits. This is left over from when Wireshark implemented "Update list of packets in real time" captures by running another copy of Wireshark to do the capture and to send messages to the main