I feel developers have not tried this. But it will always be good idea to
give large file support.
see foolowing messages for further details
http://ethereal.ntop.org/lists/ethereal-users/200111/msg00193.html
http://www.ethereal.com/lists/ethereal-dev/200305/msg00214.html
Naveen
----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Greear" <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, July 23, 2003 1:04 PM
Subject: [Ethereal-dev] large-file support?
> Any particular reason why tethereal does not try to open
> files with O_LARGEFILE?
>
> I've implemented this in my own little packet capture reader
> (for a hacked up capture format of my own making), and it seems
> to work fine (at least on modern Linux). When I convert
> my 4GB file to pcap format though, nothing can read it!
>
> In case someone is curious, here is how I open:
>
> if ((fname == 0) || (strcmp(fname, "-") == 0)) {
> in_fd = STDIN_FILENO;
> }
> else {
> in_fd = open(fname, O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE);
> if (in_fd < 0) {
> fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Could not open file: %s, error: %s\n",
> fname, strerror(errno));
> exit(errno);
> }
> }
>
> if (ofname == 0) {
> out_fd = STDOUT_FILENO;
> }
> else {
> out_fd = open(ofname, O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_TRUNC|O_LARGEFILE);
> if (out_fd < 0) {
> fprintf(stderr, "ERROR: Could not open output file: %s, error:
%s\n",
> ofname, strerror(errno));
> exit(errno);
> }
> }
>
>
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
> --
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> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com
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