Wireshark · Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] W2K problem terminating tethereal

[Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 05:55:17PM -0400, Larry T. Todd wrote:
> Problem: When terminating tethereal via Ctl-C in W2K, application reports
> an error, reports that it is creating an error log and doesn't write to the
> file selected with the "-w" option.  I have found the file that I believe
> is the error log and it doesn't provide any information that I can
> ascertain as pointing to the problem.

The bug was due to doing a "longjmp()" out of the signal handler for
control-C, which doesn't work on Windows (signal handlers run in a
separate thread); I've checked in a fix, which should appear in the next
release.