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Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows?
From: Kurt Knochner <ws.dev.list () nospam knochner com>
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:59:26 +0100
On 2013-02-06 22:52, Guy Harris wrote:
2) it's easier to get them to open About -> Wireshark than to figureup whatever tool is appropriate on their particular OS or to otherwiseget the CPU information.
right, but why build that into wireshark with all "hassles" of interoperability?
However, there's other information that might be useful, such as bus speeds, memory speeds, etc.; I doubt we want to gather a ton of information about that.
why not have a 'portable' script (perl, python, lua) that scans the OS for different available system tools, gathers the data and reports back whatever it finds (lsb_release -a, uname -xyz, cat /proc/cpu, systctl -a, etc.). Windows however, would need some special treatment, but adjusting a script should be
easier than adding the same functionality to the Wireshark code. And asking the user to run 'crash_report.py' from the install directoryshould be no problem, as the user has an interest in getting the problem
fixed. Just a few thoughts .... Regards Kurt ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
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- Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Anders Broman (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Dirk Jagdmann (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Guy Harris (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Guy Harris (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Guy Harris (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Bálint Réczey (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Guy Harris (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Anders Broman (Feb 06)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Kurt Knochner (Feb 07)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Anders Broman (Feb 07)
- Re: Get_cpu_info on platforms other than Windows? Guy Harris (Feb 06)