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Wireshark-users: Re: [Wireshark-users] Is the "-Q" flag for Wireshark useful?

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2008 18:45:53 -0800

On Feb 20, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Jeff Morriss wrote:

Would anybody miss the current "-Q" flag if it went away?

I wouldn't but test/suite-capture.sh would (it uses it for the "capture
10 packets [with the GUI]" test).

We already supply our own getopt() for platforms that don't have it (for which, at this point, read "Windows", as I think every version of every UN*X on which we run has it). Perhaps we should supply our own getopt_long(), instead, for platforms that don't have *it* (there's a BSD-licensed version that modern versions of FreeBSD/NetBSD/OpenBSD/OS X have, and Solaris 10 has a version as well), use it, add long options for less-commonly-used options such as that - and add long aliases for the existing options.