Re: [libpcap][patch] appending to a capture

[Gerald Combs <gerald () wireshark org>]

On 6/1/11 8:10 AM, Mark Johnston wrote:
> Hi Darren,
>
> On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 03:53:22PM -0700, Darren Reed wrote:
>
> > You might be better off spending some time working
> > on additions to editcap that include concatenating
> > two or more pcap files.
>
> Shouldn't a function that manipulates capture files go into libpcap? I'm
> not trying to solve a problem I'm having at the moment; rather, this
> function has been in our tree for a long time, and I'd like to
> contribute it upstream based on some interest that I saw. I'm happy to
> modify it if that's what I need to do, but I think this functionality
> should be in a library, not in a program.

N.B. this functionality shouldn't be added to editcap either. It's
already present in mergecap.

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