Bart Smaalders wrote:
> I'm sponsoring the attached open fasttrack for myself. I'm
> looking for minor release binding and the case times out
> 6/13/2007.
>
> - Bart
>
I don't have any experience with wireshare, although I used ethereal not
too long ago.
I have a few questions, though.
1) a lot of files seem to be needed for /usr/sbin {wireshark, editcap,
capinfos, text2pcap, tshark, mergecap, dumpcap}. Is it likely that an
admin is going to want to use all of these? I'm just wondering about
"pollution" of the namespace in /usr/sbin. Are these separate programs,
or just hardlinks to the same file? Would it make sense to either
deliver some of these in a different directory (/usr/lib?
/usr/wireshark? I don't know) or (if they are all hardlinks to the same
file activated by switching on argv[0]) rely on a command line switch to
select behavior?
2) are all the tools only applicable/useful for system administrators?
does it make sense to offer the wireshark binary (and maybe tshark) in
usr/bin instead of /usr/sbin?
3) i presume wireshark can deal with files captured by snoop(1m)?
Either way, it should be called out in the case materials, I think.
I don't know what the dominant practice in other FOSS distros, so I'd be
interested hear about that, too.
-- Garrett
