Re: [tcpdump] timestamps: make possible to request high precision timestamps (#377)

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu> wrote:
    >> Yes.  My notion was to rid tcpdump.c of all code not related to option
    >> parsing, and then introduce a pktdump.c interface that that could
    >> start fresh in the short-option parsing space.  Could toggle on
    >> $0/argv[0].

    > Unless pktdump goes down the Wireshark path of having dissectors
    > register preferences by name, with a generic option such as "-o"
    > allowing options to be set by name (which would allow -b, -E, -H, -K,
    > -m, -M, -R, and -S to be absorbed into that option), it might still run
    > the risk of running out of single-letter options.

I don't think that I'd want to let specific dissectors capture single letter
options, period.  So, yes, -o sounds right, or just use long options for
that.

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