OK, this is really bizarre. (or maybe it's just a wierd windows thing...)
I didn't see anything on stdout because I associated the file extension
".tcp" with ethereal (specifically, "C:\Program Files\Ethereal\ethereal.exe"
"%1"). So I tried running ethereal from a command line, and then loading a
capture file. The problem didn't happen. I tried running `"C:\Program
Files\Ethereal\ethereal.exe" "capturefile.tcp"` from a command line. The
problem didn't happen. If I double-click on a .tcp file, it happens
reliably, if I run `start capturefile.tcp` it happens (and I get nothing on
stdout), if I run `start "c:\program files\ethereal\ethereal.exe"
"capturefile.tcp"`, it happens, and I get nothing to stdout.
I've never done much debugging of stuff under windows (I think I know why
now...) I don't even know how to figure out what might be happening.
(perhaps it's crashing specifically *becuase* there isn't a stdout to write
to?) Or maybe it's just a piece of wierd windows magic that isn't working.
So, anyone have any pointers as to what I might be able to do to wrangle
*some* sort of information out of windows? (but at least I think I have a
reproducible problem....)
-Joe
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ian Schorr [mailto:spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 1:10 PM
> To: ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Joe Patterson
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Lack of close button on Conversation windows
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> I don't experience this problem with the 0.9.15 Win32 build from the
> Ethereal site in Windows 2000, nor with a CVS build from about a week
> ago. Joe, you don't see any messages in stdout when Ethereal terminates?
>
> Guy Harris wrote:
>
> >
> > On Oct 29, 2003, at 4:30 PM, Joe Patterson wrote:
> >
> >> Something I just noticed, which may be present in other places. If
> >> you open
> >> a capture (haven't tested this on any other platforms, yet, just
> >> 0.9.15 on
> >> W2K), and open one of the "Conversations" statistics windows, that
> >> window
> >> has no close button, and if you hit the windows close X, it exits
> >> ethereal
> >> entirely. This seems non-optimal. Anyone else notice this?
> >
> >
> > No. I just tried the current CVS version on Mac OS X 10.3, and I can
> > dismiss it by clicking the "X" jellybean^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hbutton and
> > the window closes without Ethereal crashing (if Ethereal exits as a
> > result of anything other than File->Quit or the main window's close
> > button, it's probably a crash).
> >
> > This might be a UNIX+X vs. Windows thing, or it might be a bug fixed
> > since 0.9.15.
> >
> > A "Close" button might be useful, however. Ronnie?
> >
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