http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=2228
Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> changed:
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Severity|Critical |Blocker
--- Comment #2 from Bill Meier <wmeier@xxxxxxxxxxx> 2008-03-20 02:40:13 GMT ---
** IMHO this is a blocker which should be fixed
** before the 1.0 release....
** (Do others agree ?)
After doing a little debugging (on my Fedora 8 Linux system):
dumpcap does not see the SIGUSR1 signal generated by 'Capture ! Stop' in
wireshark when dumpcap is running as suid root and wireshark is running as a
normal user process with no special privileges.
I'm guessing that a SIGUSR1 from a non-privileged process to a privileged
process is not allowed ??
(I do note that after starting a background suid root dumpcap from the command
line of a normal user process, a 'kill -USR1 <prcid>' from the command line
fails).
Assuming that the above is correct, I don't know the right way to fix this.
Send a 'stop' message on the pipe from wireshark to dumpcap ?
Close the pipe ??
??
I think I need to leave this fix to someone who is familiar with all of this.
Bill
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