Re: -i man "Ties are broken by choosing the earliest match."

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Jul 16, 2009, at 12:49 PM, Doru Georgescu wrote:

> Indeed, I was not logged in. I don't know how to apologize.

By telling the SourceForge people that their error message is very  
unhelpful. :-)

I.e., given how horribly wrong their error message is, I don't think  
you have anything for which you need to apologize; they did, after  
all, say that comments were closed, so the obvious conclusion for one  
to draw is that comments were closed....

> I will try to look into this.
> Am I supposed to close that 'bug', while allowing further comments?  
> I mean, if
> you can't close it.

I'd close it without allowing further comments - this is one place  
where that'd be appropriate.

I'd file the libpcap bug about the filter man page first, and then  
close the tcpdump one about the expression section of the tcpdump man  
page as a duplicate of the new libpcap bug.  If, when you close a bug  
as a duplicate, you can't specify the bug it's a duplicate of, I'd put  
that in (including the URL for the libpcap bug) as a final comment.

> So where are the up-to-date man's? Maybe they are not public yet.

Currently, they're only in the libpcap and tcpdump source code  
tarballs, and in OSes that have adopted libpcap 1.0.0/tcpdump 4.0.0  
(for example, I think recent versions of Gentoo might have done so,  
from mail Peter Volkov has sent out).
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