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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] removing mergecap -T option

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 14 Aug 2015 11:03:21 -0700
On Aug 14, 2015, at 9:18 AM, Hadriel Kaplan <the.real.hadriel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Due to some reported bugs and inconsistencies, I'm refactoring the
> capture file merging code in mergecap.c and file.c's cf_merge_files()
> - basically gutting them and putting most of the logic into a common
> "merge_files()" function in merge.c.

The more of the merge logic that's in libwiretap, the better; that way, any record types that need special handling when merging could be handled there.