Re: Adding pcap-ng pipe support to dumpcap

[Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>]

On Fri, Jun 16, 2017 at 9:36 AM, Kvidera, Evan D <EKvidera15 () winona edu> wrote:
> Hello Wireshark Devs,
>
> My name is Evan Kvidera and I am a senior undergraduate student studying
> Computer Science. I have a decent amount of programming experience, but only
> a little in C. My employer has asked me to try to add support for piping
> pcap-ng captures to Wireshark.
> I have read over the bug report requesting the feature,
> https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=11370.
>
> After reading the mailing list archives here,
> https://www.mail-archive.com/wireshark-dev () wireshark org/msg33336.html, it
> looks like this addition will be nontrivial, but doable, and that the
> changes necessary are all going to be in dumpcap.
>
> I have at least a month or two of full-time work I can dedicate to this if
> necessary, although I am hoping it will not take that long.
>
> I have read through the Wireshark Developer's Guide and looked over the
> style guide for Wireshark. Is there anything else I should know before
> starting development? I will try to develop this as independently as
> possible, but I may have a few questions along the way.

Hi Evan,

I looked at this back in 2012 and even proposed a patch that might be
useful to you:

      http://seclists.org/wireshark/2012/May/25

No doubt it was a little too simplistic but if I find some time next
week while I am in Seattle I might try to resurrect it and see if it
works.

-- 
Regards,
Richard Sharpe
(何以解憂？唯有杜康。--曹操)
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