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Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 12506] Lua postdissector - os.execute() not working as exp

Date: Thu, 09 Jun 2016 22:25:18 +0000

Comment # 5 on bug 12506 from
(In reply to Orko Sarkar from comment #4)
> (In reply to Guy Harris from comment #1)
> > Can you attach the Lua script?
> > 
> > Can you either attach the Python code (and everything needed to run it), or
> > simplify it to a smaller Python script sufficient to demonstrate the problem?
> > 
> > Are you certain that the Python script is even being *run* by the
> > os.execute() call in Wireshark?
> 
> I've attached the Lua script and the Python code. I think the os.execute()
> call should be running the Python script, since when I run tshark with the
> command "tshark -r <filename> -V", everything runs as expected, and both the
> Python and foo files are created in /tmp/.

There's "should be" and there's "is".

Perhaps there's something different in the Wireshark environment that causes it
not to be run.


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