Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] Ring buffer without the ring

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 18:15:19 -0800
On Thu, Jan 30, 2003 at 01:02:45AM +0000, spamcontrol2@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > I wasn't the creator of that code; I don't know why its creators made
> > the design decisions that they did.
> 
> Perhaps I should re-ask on Ethereal-dev?  =)

Perhaps, although I don't know whether they're still reading the
list(s).

An alternative would be to look them up in the AUTHORS file (although
you'd have to know that the contribution that included the ring buffer
stuff is listed as "Support for stopping capture at specified capture
file size or capture duration").