On Wed, Oct 10, 2012 at 5:32 PM, Maynard, Chris
<Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Evan,
> I finally got around to applying/testing your patch on Windows XP SP3 32-bit. As expected, Wireshark continues to capture just fine.
>
> The relevant code in gui_utils and tshark are very similar indeed, but there are some differences, so I'm not sure if they could be combined or not.
>
> But as Guy pointed out in a subsequent response, perhaps pipes no longer need to be handled any differently on Windows anymore and we no longer need to wait for exit status? In truth, I haven't looked at this code too much and it's not really an area I'm too comfortable digging into right now.
Frankly, me neither, especially since it's all Windows-specific and I
still haven't set up my old Windows VM for development. I've filed a
low-priority bug (#7847) so it doesn't get absolutely forgotten, but
I'm not too inclined to go stirring up trouble at this point.
Evan