[Ethereal-dev] long standing glitch with file save

[Nathan Neulinger <nneul@xxxxxxx>]

This has been in the code for ages, but just noticed it again. Not sure
if it's something that can be reasonably dealt with or not.

If you open a capture, filter it, and then save the displayed packets to
the same capture file, the original file is destroyed (obviously), but
the saved data is corrupt. (Basically, you can't overwrite the file
you're currently viewing without the end result being useless.) Usually
everything ends up displaying as plain Ethernet packets. If you save to
a new file, the save data is not corrupted. Not sure if there is a good
way to deal with this or not. Saving to a temporary file and renaming,
or renaming original first, might solve it.

-- Nathan

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