Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] While writing to a pipe, getting some errorneous extra bytes between packets ?!?

["John McDermott" <jjm@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Guy Harris wrote:
>
> > Ulf Lamping wrote:
> >
> > > I'm calling the following (under cygwin):
> > >
> > > ./tethereal -i 3 -c 10 -a duration:30 -F libpcap -w - >
> > > ./testout.pcap 2>./testout.txt
> >
> >
> > But it works OK if you do
> >
> >     ./tethereal -i 3 -c 10 -a duration:30 -F libpcap -w testout.pcap
> >
> > ?
> Yes, the test case "directly writing to a file" is working well.
> Any ideas what is going on?


It is possible that stdout is not being set to binmode by ethereal. I do  
not have a Cygwin system set up with a compiler to test it, but maybe that  
is at least part of the issue.

--john



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