Re: reading from named pipes on OSX?

[Stephen Fisher <steve () stephen-fisher com>]

On Dec 7, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Aaron Turner wrote:

> Reading the man page for tshark indicates that the following is vaild:
>
> mkfifo foo
> tshark -i foo &
> cat somefile.pcap >foo
>
> Which seems to work on Linux, but not OS X:
>
> Capturing on foo
> tshark: Unexpected error from select: Invalid argument
>
> Using 1.2.2 & 1.2.4... is this a known issue?

Hmm.. I just tried those commands and it worked fine on my MacOS  
10.5.8 machine using a recent development version of Wireshark from  
SVN (1.3.3 rev 31191).  What version of MacOS X are you running?  Let  
me download 1.2.x and try it on my machine.  I'll let you know.


Steve

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