Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] what does sync_mode mean??

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Li Haijiang wrote:

> I found the struct capture_options have the item of sync_mode in the capture.h.
> but i don't know when it is in the sync_mode or in the normally mode and then code
> in the capture.c file have two different function to call.
> -----------the code in the capture.c
> if (capture_opts.sync_mode) {	
>    /* sync mode: do the capture in a child process */
>    return sync_pipe_do_capture(is_tempfile);
>    /* capture is still running */
>  } else {
>    /* normal mode: do the capture synchronously */
>    return normal_do_capture(is_tempfile);
>    /* capture is finished here */
>  }
> ------------
>
>
>  
Please have a look at doc/README.capture, I tried to explain it there 
(although I didn't implemented it).

Regards, ULFL