Re: What is the main reason in absent append capabilities

[Mikhail Manuylov <mikhail.manuilov () gmail com>]

On 2/16/06, Ed Maste <emaste () phaedrus sandvine ca> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 10:56:26AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > Mikhail Manuylov wrote:
> >
> > > All I wonder is why tcpdump still hasn't any binary dump append feature.
> >
> > Because nobody who needed that capability wrote code to implement it and
> > contributed it to tcpdump-workers?
>
> I've just discovered that our local tree (at my work) has a patch to
> implement this functionality.  Unfortuantely it's not quite complete;
> it doesn't check that the new link layer type is the same as the one
> in the existing capture file.  I'll have a go at fixing it up and making
> it available.

Thats very cool, I'll be the first one to test this new functionality
(i.e. send me a patch as soon as you can). If you send me even
incomplete version of your patch will be much appreciated, cause I
have to solve a problem for my local work progect today, so I have
some time to write, test and fix this future beloved feature.
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