Bug #2288 reports a problem wherein on Linux requesting a wireshark
capture to a file in a directory for which the user does not have write
permission causes a popup which says only:
"Child capture process exited: exit status 2".
I've posted a rather longish analysis in the bug 2288 comments of what I
think is going on and some thoughts as to possible fixes.
The problems basically relate to the use of dumpcap as a
childwireshark/tshark child and can manifest themselves differently for
wireshark and tshark.
I would appreciate any comments which the developers might have.
(I would normally have posted the analysis here, but since I started the
analysis in the bug comments, I decided to continue the analysis there).
Thanks
Bill