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Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377)
From: Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>
Date: Sat, 03 May 2014 16:00:43 -0400
Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote: >> Yes. My notion was to rid tcpdump.c of all code not related to option >> parsing, and then introduce a pktdump.c interface that that could >> start fresh in the short-option parsing space. Could toggle on >> $0/argv[0]. > Unless pktdump goes down the Wireshark path of having dissectors > register preferences by name, with a generic option such as "-o" > allowing options to be set by name (which would allow -b, -E, -H, -K, > -m, -M, -R, and -S to be absorbed into that option), it might still run > the risk of running out of single-letter options. I don't think that I'd want to let specific dissectors capture single letter options, period. So, yes, -o sounds right, or just use long options for that. -- ] 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
Current thread:
- Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377) Michael Richardson (May 03)
- Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377) Guy Harris (May 03)
- Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377) Michael Richardson (May 03)
- Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377) Guy Harris (May 03)