Ethereal-users: Re: [Ethereal-users] System crash?

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From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2004 00:22:37 -0800
On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 12:39:37AM +0100, Frank Strohbach wrote:
> Do ethereal continuously writing the data in a file or in the end when
> the caputre will be finisch?

It writes continuously to the file, although it doesn't guarantee that,
when it captures a packet, it immediately gets written to the file -
there is some buffering done by the C I/O library.