[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Shelly Cadora wrote:
> Maybe I'm getting a little closer here... 
>  
> It looks like fgetline is failing when it tries to read from the hosts 
> file.  The file pointer returned by eth_fopen(hostspath, "r") in the 
> read_hosts_file function is bad.

"Bad" in what sense?

If it's null, the open failed - but the current SVN version of 
Wireshark, at least, checks for that, and just gives up.