Stephen Fisher schrieb:
On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 08:27:03AM +0200, Ulf Lamping wrote:
You'll need to compile without libz, as libz is (optionally?) used to
work with capture files and it will by default use 32 bit file offsets
on machines which uses 32 bits for long values. So you can compile
Wireshark/Tshark without libz (configure option?) or use a 64 bit
machine that uses 64bits for "long" integers.
Would it be worth the effort to put some code in that would use the zlib
reading and writing functions for uncompressed/compressed use < 2GB vs.
normal reading and writing functions for non-compressed files of any
size based on a user preference?
I don't know if that's possible, AFAIK the change for long file support
is a compile time option, so you won't be able to use a user preference
for it - unless you are working with some more magic, compiling two
different modules and loading one of it based on that preference.
However, that's a lot of work for a minor goal IMHO.
My preferred way would be to motivate the zlib people to support >2GB on
"32bit long" machines "natively". However, I didn't spend any effort in
that direction.
Regards, ULFL
