Dominique Pelle wrote:

> I see 2 compilation warnings when I enable the +sniff feature with
> 'configure --enable-sniff':
> 
> if_sniff.c:719: warning: ignoring return value of 'pipe', declared
> with attribute warn_unused_result
> if_sniff.c:720: warning: ignoring return value of 'pipe', declared
> with attribute warn_unused_result
> 
> Attached patch fixes them.

Thanks, I'll include it.

> I've never used SNiFF+, but I'm curious about it.  I searched for it on
> Google.  It seems that this product was taken over by Windriver, but
> there is nothing about SNiFF+ on Windriver's website.
> 
> - Is SNiFF+ dead?
> - Is there any free version available?

I would consider it dead.  Some people might still be using it though.

> Also, I would also expect to get an error message when doing ":sniff
> connect" in gvim, since I don't have SNiFF+ installed.  But gvim does
> not detect that the connection fails, and hangs after a few seconds
> (100% CPU usage and I need to kill -9 vim).

Do you know where it hangs?

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