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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 6922] Wireshark error message is malformed

Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2012 12:16:06 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=6922

Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |FIXED

--- Comment #4 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-04-04 12:16:05 PDT ---
I've checked in a change to initialize errbuf to an empty string and report an
"Unknown error", with a parenthetical note indicating that this is a pcap bug,
if it's empty after pcap_open() or pcap_open_live() fails.

That should fix this problem (and allow us to handle the case where those calls
*succeed* but fill in errbuf with a warning, if we choose to do so).

The fix should show up in a future trunk build; I'll schedule it for the 1.4
and 1.6 branches.

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