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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 30579: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/: em

From: Stephen Fisher <steve@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 13:30:38 -0600

On Oct 19, 2009, at 12:37 PM, Joerg Mayer wrote:

On Mon, Oct 19, 2009 at 11:12:20AM -0400, Jeff Morriss wrote:
Joerg Mayer wrote:
There seems to be an increasing nunmber of variables that ssem to be lacking
documentation. How about adding them to the manpage(s)?

These environment variables are targeted mainly at developers looking
at/debugging memory issues.  Do they really belong in the
(user-oriented) man pages?

I don't like undocumented command line options - and the environment vars
are something very similar. So in my opinion: Yes :-)

I can see Joerg's point. If we don't document it in the man pages, we need to document it somewhere other than in source code.


Steve