FYI: I was able to test this on a Windows PC, but it doesn't appear to be working. I could be doing something wrong since I hardly ever use tshark, but I compared the output of a 0.99.6-tshark with the output of an SVN-23125-tshark with the following command line:
tshark.exe -p -i 4 -f icmp -c 10 -x -w -
While pinging my router, the 0.99.6 version produces this output:
No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging
Capturing on Wireless PC Card Model 0111 (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler)
1 ???í? ? ? åK?G|A? J J ?%ÑT? ???? E <?b Ç??ª?¿pf?¿p F[? ??
2 åK?G?K? J J ????0 ?%ÑT E <?b û??ª?¿p??¿pf N[? ??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
3 çK?G£H? J J ?%ÑT? ???? E <?c Ç??Ñ?¿pf?¿p E[? ??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwa
4 çK?G?U? J J ????0 ?%ÑT E <?c û??Ñ?¿p??¿pf M[? ??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
5 êK?GcS? J J ?%ÑT? ???? E <?d Ç??ñ?¿pf?¿p D[? ??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwa
6 êK?G?_? J J ????0 ?%ÑT E <?d û??ñ?¿p??¿pf L[? ??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuv
7 ëK?G?Q? J J ?%ÑT? ???? E <?e Ç??ú?¿pf?¿p C[? ?abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwab
8 ëK?G3]? J J ????0 ?%ÑT E <?e û??ú?¿p??¿pf K[? ?abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvw
9 èK?GdV? J J ?%ÑT? ???? E <?f Ç??ó?¿pf?¿p B[??abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwabc
10 èK?G?a? J J ????0 ?%ÑT E <?f û??ó?¿p??¿pf J[?abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwa
bcdefghi
.... whereas the SVN-23125-tshark produces only this output:
Capturing on Wireless PC Card Model 0111 (Microsoft's Packet Scheduler)
10
(NOTE that where "10" is displayed above, what is actually displayed is a counter, counting up from 1 until the limit of 10 packets is reached. That's just the last thing that's displayed when the program terminates.)
I assume this is relevant, "No log handling enabled - turning on stderr logging"? Or am I just doing something wrong? If so, let me know the exact command-line options I should be using when testing this.
- Chris
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From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Guy Harris
Sent: Tue 10/9/2007 9:46 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] tshark: drop features "dump to stdout" and"read filter" - conclusion
On Oct 9, 2007, at 1:17 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> WHY IS STDOUT NOT POSSIBLE?
>
> Well, it's possible but just not implemented.
>
> The current implementation simply passes the filename from tshark to
> dumpcap, which then will mess up it's own stdout with the event
> messages
> and packet data.
>
> It's no vodoo magic to make it work again, but someone (but not me)
> has
> to made the changes.
I've checked in a change to make dumpcap use its standard error,
rather than its standard output, for the sync pipe; it appears to
allow "tshark -w -" to work, at least when piping to tcpdump on OS X.
I haven't tested it on Windows (my Windows "machine" is currently
sitting on a disk drive I got back from DriveSavers after the drive in
my PowerBook went bad; I haven't yet gotten the drive in the PowerBook
replaced yet, so I can't figure up Virtual PC), but it looks as if it
should work, at least based on
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/190351
which says that, to *not* redirect one of the standard handles in a
CreateProcess() call when you're redirecting others, just set the
appropriate handle to GetStdHandle(the appropriate #define), which I'm
assuming is STD_OUTPUT_HANDLE to leave the standard output alone.
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