Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 992] Stopping capture after specified time does not work properly

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Date: Sun, 4 Feb 2007 17:41:17 +0000 (GMT)

http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=992





------- Comment #1 from thermal@xxxxx  2007-02-04 17:41 GMT -------
Similar problem exists when I start tshark with -a duration:10 listening on an
interface with no cable connected. It seems, that the timeout is checked each
time a packet is recieved which is not good if there are no packets on the
wire. Strace says that it waits forever for recvfrom:

write(2, "Capturing on eth0\n", 18Capturing on eth0
)     = 18
time(NULL)                              = 1170610326
recvfrom(4,               

I think recvfrom() should be called within a select() loop with a timeout
defined. You could then check if the timeout elapsed each 0.5 sec or so.


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