fixed in revision 20424 On 1/14/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=1301 > > Summary: File Open dialog preview needs > 3s for large invalid > files and appears dead > Product: Wireshark > Version: SVN > Platform: PC > OS/Version: Windows XP > Status: NEW > Severity: Major > Priority: Low > Component: Wireshark > AssignedTo: [email protected] > ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Build Information: > SVN 20423 > -- > While browsing files with the File Open dialog, some very large files (in this > case a virtual harddisk (IE6Test.vhd) file) need much longer than the preview > timeout in the Preferences - and looks like dead to the uninformed user. > > If you wait long enough, an error will show up in the preview fields: > Lucent/Ascend access server trace > 1487377408 bytes > error after reading 0 packets > > Please note that the file size is in fact correct. > > Without digging deeper into it, I guess the wiretap library tries to read the > first packet and found no "end of packet" marker until iterating till the end > of the file. > > We might need to add a check here, "stop to read a packet after n bytes", > while > n is the largest possible packet size plus a safety margin. > > > -- > Configure bugmail: http://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/userprefs.cgi?tab=email > ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- > You are the assignee for the bug, or are watching the assignee. > _______________________________________________ > Wireshark-bugs mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.wireshark.org/mailman/listinfo/wireshark-bugs >
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