Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] CRITICAL: Ethereal 0.10.10 Locks up Windows XP Solid!

["Idon ." <fehe@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Sorry, guys.  You've made your point.  Pent up frustration on my part. :-)

Anyhow, I have now reverted to 0.10.9.  Nothing more I can contribute at 
this point - especially if Microsoft might have a part in this pie.

Thanks.

Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Well, telling us there's a bug in the new Ethereal release and someone
> has to fix it isn't very helpful either.

Joerg Mayer wrote:

> I don't know how much you know about operating systems. One of the 
> requirements
> for an OS like Win XP is, that it is the OS job to make sure that a users
> process *MUST NOT* be able to lock the system hard. So if a user process
> is capable of locking the system, this is definitely an *OS BUG*. It may
> be *triggered* by a faulty application, but it first and formost still is
> an OS bug. An OS bug may be some kernel bug or, for example, a driver bug.
> In this specific case, this means the following:
> In case there truly is a hard lock of your machine (and not just the
> desktop), then this is an OS bug. The actual bug may either be in the
> M$ provided parts of the OS or in the driver that comes with WinPcap.
> So in the case there is a bug in Ethereal that *triggers* the OS bug, it
> is *very important* that the OS bug be found and fixed too!