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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] macosx-setup.sh fails now

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2015 11:57:34 -0800

On Jan 22, 2015, at 9:52 AM, Roland Knall <rknall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> CAP or at least SETCAP could be the capabilites utility for Linux,

Yes.

> I did not need it on Mac.

OS X doesn't have the same capability mechanism, nor does it have PF_PACKET sockets for which capabilities would grant access, so it's neither necessary nor implementable on OS X.

References:
- [Wireshark-dev] macosx-setup.sh fails now
  - From: Anders Broman
- Re: [Wireshark-dev] macosx-setup.sh fails now
  - From: Guy Harris
- Re: [Wireshark-dev] macosx-setup.sh fails now
  - From: Anders Broman
- Re: [Wireshark-dev] macosx-setup.sh fails now
  - From: Roland Knall

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