Re: [tcpdump-workers] [the-tcpdump-group/libpcap] on the fly decompression of savefiles named *.gz (#578)

2017-05-11 Thread Michael Richardson
Ray Bellis wrote: > If I've done it right (although I might not have) it'll just fail to > not > supporting it if libz.so isn't available at compile time and it'll be > treated as an unrecognized file format. > In any event, if libz.so isn't

Re: [tcpdump-workers] [the-tcpdump-group/libpcap] on the fly decompression of savefiles named *.gz (#578)

2017-05-11 Thread Michael Richardson
Ray Bellis wrote: > Support for .gz handling on writes to follow, since those don't work > nicely in conjunction with file rotation. Having gzip invoked with the > post-rotation processing option is very disk I/O intensive compared > with just writing out