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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 9605] Confirm discarding data before restarting capture

Date: Sat, 28 Dec 2013 23:10:11 +0000

Comment # 3 on bug 9605 from
(In reply to comment #2)
> Prompting before stop does not seem to useful, it does not lead to data loss
> (besides new, uncaptured packets). Let's wait for a feature request before
> adding another preference for  this ;)

A "did you forget that if you close now, you'll lose some data?" reminder can
be useful.

A "did you forget that stopping the capture would cause capturing to stop?"
reminder seems less useful. :-)


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