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Re: [the-tcpdump-group/libpcap] on the fly decompression of savefiles named *.gz (#578)
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Thu, 11 May 2017 10:31:56 -0400
Ray Bellis <notifications () github com> wrote: > Support for .gz handling on writes to follow, since those don't work > nicely in conjunction with file rotation. Having gzip invoked with the > post-rotation processing option is very disk I/O intensive compared > with just writing out data in gzip format from the outset. I have some concern with introducing a new libz.so or something dependancy to libpcap. I wonder if a popen("|gzip >") will work? -- ] Never tell me the odds! | ipv6 mesh networks [ ] Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works | network architect [ ] mcr () sandelman ca http://www.sandelman.ca/ | ruby on rails [ _______________________________________________ tcpdump-workers mailing list tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers
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