On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:50 PM, Christopher Maynard < [email protected]> wrote:
> Two problems: > 1) How do you guarantee the files will be processed in correct time order > for appending? > > I can't. If the user needs it, they can run reordercap. > 2) mergecap today doesn't support reading from stdin. > > I think Jasper's solution is the way to go for now (less the -a option due > to #1 above). > > Even my earlier proposed script isn't as useful as it could be. What might > make it more useful (potentially) is if in addition to supporting reading > from stdin, mergecap also supported reading from and writing to the same > file, as that would completely avoid the tmp file(s) altogether, i.e.: > > This would be a very useful option. But I don't think it's a feasible way, since the file handlers (in and out) are different.
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