>>>>> "Guy" == Guy Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Guy> Libpcap doesn't directly use "open()" and "write()" to write capture
Guy> files; instead, it uses "fopen()" and "fwrite()", which means that
Guy> the "standard I/O library" routines in glibc would have to use a
Guy> 64-bit file offset type internally in order to support access to
Guy> files > 2GB on 32-bit Linux platforms. I don't know whether it does
Guy> so; if it doesn't, tcpdump won't support captures > 2GB on those
Guy> platforms.
As an alternative, I will commit in a couple of minutes a patch that
was submitted awhile ago to introduce -C to rotate capture files.
] ON HUMILITY: to err is human. To moo, bovine. | firewalls [
] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works, Ottawa, ON |net architect[
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