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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] ChmodBPF on Mac

From: Ryan Govostes <rgovostes@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 10 Sep 2010 10:11:26 -0400
Has there been any consideration of this?


On Sep 3, 2010, at 5:53 PM, Ryan Govostes wrote:

Hello,

I noticed that Wireshark 1.4 came out today and is the first version to have a 64-bit binary specifically for Snow Leopard.

However, this version still comes with the ChmodBPF startup item for the user to install. As I noted over a year ago in a bug report[1], using startup items in this fashion is deprecated and should be replaced by a launchd plist.

In addition to a plist for this purpose, I also wrote and included an AppleScript to automatically install the plist file, which removes the complicated installation instructions found in the read me file (which OS X doesn't have any default file associations to open, I might add).

I understand that ChmodBPF comes from the libpcap project, which itself has introduced a property list. However, theirs requires you to install an additional tool; mine is self-contained. They also do not provide an installer.

Is there any way for my replacement to be considered for the next release?

Regards,
Ryan Govostes