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Re: forces (and sctp) patch


From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:57:43 -0500


"sthaug" == sthaug  <sthaug () nethelp no> writes:
    >> Well, it gets in the way of all types of things, for example:
    >> 
    >> tcpdump-v -i foo.cap | egrep pattern | wc -l
    >> 
    >> I think the behaviour should be the reverse of the -g in Mac OS X
    >> and that is it should be necessary to use some new command line
    >> option to force tcpdump to insert new lines between things.

    sthaug> 100% agreed. I think changing the default behavior like that
    sthaug> was a bad idea, and should be reversed.

There are three questions then:
1) do we do this now? 
2) do we make any accomodation for the situation in between?
3) are there some volunteers to help?

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