Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] 0.8.2 live capture glitch?

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From: "C. L. McAvaney" <chrismc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2000 10:19:48 +1100
    Date:       Wed, 2 Feb 2000 11:08:58 -0600
    From:       Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxx>

  > On Wed, Feb 02, 2000 at 03:19:54AM -0600, Guy Harris wrote:
  > > 
  > > 
  > > > The capture menu is there, but the "Start..." option is grayed out.
  > > 
  > > If the child ("ethereal-capture") process exits - as it should do, when
  > > the "Stop" button is pressed (the child process, not the parent process,
  > > draws the capture dialog box), its end of the pipe is closed, so the
  > > parent should eventually get an end-of-file indication when reading from
  > > the pipe, so it should declare the capture "done" and re-enable the
  > > "Capture:Start" menu item.
  > 
  > Interesting.. After I stop the live capture, I still have the words:
  > 
  > 	<live capture in progress>
  > 
  > in the label widget on the bottom right.
I noticed that as well, I wasn't sure if it just hadn't updated yet or
it was a glitch.

Christopher
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