Re: ChmodBPF on Mac

[Ryan Govostes <rgovostes () gmail com>]

Has there been any consideration of this?


On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Ryan Govostes wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I noticed that Wireshark 1.4 came out today and is the first version to have a 64-bit binary specifically for Snow 
> Leopard.
>
> However, this version still comes with the ChmodBPF startup item for the user to install. As I noted over a year ago 
> in a bug report[1], using startup items in this fashion is deprecated and should be replaced by a launchd plist.
>
> In addition to a plist for this purpose, I also wrote and included an AppleScript to automatically install the plist 
> file, which removes the complicated installation instructions found in the read me file (which OS X doesn't have any 
> default file associations to open, I might add).
>
> I understand that ChmodBPF comes from the libpcap project, which itself has introduced a property list. However, 
> theirs requires you to install an additional tool; mine is self-contained. They also do not provide an installer.
>
> Is there any way for my replacement to be considered for the next release?
>
> Regards,
> Ryan Govostes
>
> [1]: https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3760

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