Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Ethereal 0.99.0 and Windows ME

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 00:26:21 -0700
Thomas Boehne wrote:

At http://www.ethereal.com/faq.html#q1.10 the FAQ specifically states
that Ethereal does still run on Windows ME, but for me 0.99.0 raises
an exception in line 252 of emem.c on start-up (assertion failed: (ret
== TRUE).


Perhaps Microsoft lied:

	http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/memory/base/virtualprotect.asp
sure doesn't seem to imply that its functionality is limited on Windows OT (95/98/Me) other than not working in the shared region, but allocated stuff shouldn't be there.
Perhaps, instead of aborting if VirtualProtect() doesn't work, Ethereal should just drive on and live with the lack of extra protection.