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Wireshark-dev: [Wireshark-dev] File formats that extcap programs can write

From: Martin Mathieson <martin.r.mathieson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2021 12:21:07 +0000
Hi
Can an extcap program write to a wiretap-supported file format other than pcap or pcapng?  A quick test (hack to file preamble and frames in extcap_example.py) suggests not..
Has it to do with synchronising whole frames being read at the wireshark end of the pipe?

Regards,
Martin