Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] interface options patch II

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sep 9, 2003, at 9:07 AM, Nathan Jennings wrote:

> Let me know if the latest patch takes care of this. As long as device 
> names do not contain parens or commas, the ethereal description string 
> syntax should be OK. However, I'd like the syntax to be as safe as 
> possible. What's the possibility of future device names having parens 
> or commas?

I suspect the chances of a device name, in the sense of something you 
supply to "pcap_open_live()", containing parens or commas is small.

As Graham Bloice noted, the chances of a device *description* 
containing parens is non-zero.

However, I think the chances of a device name, in the sense of 
something you supply to "pcap_open_live()", containing a *blank* is 
smaller than the chance of it containing any particular printable ASCII 
character, so perhaps patch III is the right answer for splitting a 
string into description and name.