Re: [Ethereal-users] Simple Feature Request

[Ulf Lamping <ulf.lamping@xxxxxx>]

Al Stu wrote:

> Ability to specify the time of day to move on to the next file in 
> "Capture Options", Capture File(s)", "Use multiple files", "Next file 
> every 1 day(s)".
>  
> So when the capture files are to be from 12:00 AM to 12:00 AM, the 
> capture can be started at anytime and not have to wait till 12:00 AM 
> to start the capturing.
>  
> Anyone besides me think this would be useful?

Although I can think this can be useful in certain situations, there is 
a serious drawback:

To obtain the current time, a system call has to be done which might 
take a "while" until return. This way it makes packet drops in the 
capture loop much more likely (as it slows down this loop).

Regards, ULFL