http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2060
--- Comment #3 from Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx> 2008-03-07 01:48:02 GMT ---
In fact there is a comment in capture_sync.c that says that these messages are
(currently) intentionally sent directly to stderr but really they should be
sent to the parent process (Wireshark) in a fashion similar to what is done
when capturing (so Wireshark could, for example, pop up a window telling the
user about the error).
Then again we're just listing interfaces here. The old pre-priv-sep Wireshark
just silently ignored any errors it got when listing interfaces (on the
assumption that it was just a permissions problem) so I suppose just directing
all the stderr to /dev/null would make sense here. (Certainly we wouldn't want
to actually pop up an error window every time a user opened the preferences
window.)
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