Re: [tcpdump] New feature to limit capture file size (#464)

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

re: https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/tcpdump/pull/464

Guy writes:
> We have the -C option, giving a file size in megabytes (real megabytes,
> i.e. 1,000,000 bytes, not 1,048,576 bytes); once the file gets that big,
> tcpdump switches to a new file.

> This adds another file size option, with a different syntax for the size
> option, and with tcpdump stopping rather than rotating files when it
> reaches that size.

> We also have the -G option, to rotate files based on time rather than size.

> We might want to consider cleaning up these options a bit, so that we can
> specify "stop" vs. "rotate" and "file size" rather than "capture time"
> independently.

thoughts?  I'm happy to accept the patch once sane, and then clean it up
as Guy suggests.




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