Ethereal-users: Re: [ethereal-users] Windows NT and update list in real time

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 6 May 2000 00:22:08 -0700
> Unfortunately, "Update list of packets in real time" won't work in
> Ethereal on Win32 systems until we do so.  We'd like to do it, but, as
> with most software, the list of things the developers would like to do
> is usually larger than the list of things they can do right at the
> moment....

...and, unfortunately, making it use "CreateProcess()" on Win32 and
having it pass file descriptors between the processes, etc., so that it
works appears to be harder than I thought.