[...] > I'd like not to have Apple's tcpdump not have to differ from the > standard in that regard. > > Unfortunately, there aren't many options left; we really need to switch to > getopt_long() (and provide our own version for platforms that don't support > it - the main one is Windows for WinDump, and we have to supply our own > getopt() for it already; most UN*Xes support it by now). >
An immediate (and quite common) solution could be managing this particular knob by means of a long option like --setdir with no single-letter synonym. Once someone resolves the getopt_long() problem it will be possible to refine things further. [...] -- Denis Ovsienko _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers@lists.tcpdump.org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers