Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ring buffer patch

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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sun, 22 Sep 2002 11:17:55 -0500 (CDT)
Checked in.

On Sat, 21 Sep 2002, Graeme Hewson wrote:

> It can sometimes happen that capturing is stopped just after Ethereal 
> has switched to a new ring buffer.  The result is that no frames are 
> displayed.  The patch to ringbuffer.c displays the previous ring buffer 
> if the current buffer is empty on close.
> 
> The patch to capture.c fixes a bug where an error return from 
> ringbuf_wtap_dump_close was ignored, and tidies up the code around the call.
> 
> 
> Graeme Hewson
>