Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 7374] Update interface lists on interface add/removal

Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 13:41:21 -0700 (PDT)
https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=7374

--- Comment #17 from Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> 2012-06-24 13:41:21 PDT ---
(In reply to comment #16)
> > About the only other reason would be if, for example, the system weren't
> > properly set up to allow dumpcap access to capture devices and you changed that
> > while Wireshark was running - but that's also a rare operation.
> 
> Which is exactly my main use case of updating the list of interfaces...

Either it's still a rare operation or it isn't.

If it is, then, as per Pontus' suggestion, it may not need more than a menu
item.

If it's not, that either means that

    1) you're doing this to a lot of machines, but on any *given* machine it's
only done once per machine

or

    2) somehow it doesn't "stick", and you have to do it multiple times per
machine.

If it's the former, is there a way to automate it?  (For OS X, the current
installer adds the startup item.)

If it's the latter, why is it not sticking?

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