On Thu, Oct 21, 2010 at 03:29:36PM -0500, Craig Votava wrote:
> I wrote a Perl script that feeds pcap data to an instance of tshark
> running in a child process, then takes the decoded output to present
> to the user.
>
> The problem is that I don't know when tshark is done sending output
> back to me.
How about using "pdml" or "psml" with the -T option. From the tshark
man page:
pdml Packet Details Markup Language, an XML-based format for the
details of a decoded packet. This information is equivalent to the
packet details printed with the -V flag.
psml Packet Summary Markup Language, an XML-based format for the
summary information of a decoded packet. This information is
equivalent to the information shown in the one-line summary printed by
default.