Re: [tcpdump-workers] Compression support

2017-06-12 Thread Ray Bellis
On 12/06/2017 19:35, Michael Richardson wrote: > I think this would be a good idea. > I also hate libraries adding atexit() code! Technically it would still be within libpcap. However until such time as all users of the library exercise good hygiene w.r.t resources they've opened I don't see t

Re: [tcpdump-workers] Compression support

2017-06-12 Thread Ray Bellis
On 09/06/2017 14:07, Ray Bellis wrote: > My modified libpcap is at: > > > > This so far only supports file reading. I don't expect file writing to > be difficult. I've now added file writing support too. One complication is that many

[tcpdump-workers] Compression support

2017-06-09 Thread Ray Bellis
I recently added gzip write support to the DNS-OARC "dnscap" utility because I found that performing gzip compression during post-processing was very inefficient for I/O. There's a blog article about this at: However, this add