I guess these are very large files. Most people wouldn't bother if they weren't.
So I guess you are doing long running captures and periodically tshark
crashes http://wiki.wireshark.org/KnownBugs/OutOfMemory .
You could "wrap" tshark in a script that cleans behind those files.
A Developer wonders if we can set a call back for when g_malloc() fails?
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 10:50 PM, Dan Murphy <danmurphy@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Just installed v 1.0.2. Same thing. tshark leave behind files in tmp.
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> On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 10:19 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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>> On Jul 17, 2008, at 11:30 AM, Dan Murphy wrote:
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>> > I'm running v 99.7 and I have a problem where the temp
>> > files are kind of becoming unmanageable. I noticed my old version
>> > 99.5 does not create these.
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>> What happens if you run the *current* version of TShark, which is 1.0.2:
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>> http://www.wireshark.org/news/20080710.html
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