["Al Stu" <AHStubbl@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

How does the current n days option determine when to switch to the next 
file?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ulf Lamping" <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>
To: "Ethereal user support" <ethereal-users@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, October 08, 2005 12:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Ethereal-users] Simple Feature Request


> Al Stu wrote:
>
> > Ability to specify the time of day to move on to the next file in 
> > "Capture Options", Capture File(s)", "Use multiple files", "Next file 
> > every 1 day(s)".
> >  So when the capture files are to be from 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM, the 
> > capture can be started at anytime and not have to wait till 12:00 AM to 
> > start the capturing.
> >  Anyone besides me think this would be useful?
>
> Although I can think this can be useful in certain situations, there is a 
> serious drawback:
>
> To obtain the current time, a system call has to be done which might take 
> a "while" until return. This way it makes packet drops in the capture loop 
> much more likely (as it slows down this loop).
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
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