Re: [the-tcpdump-group/libpcap] on the fly decompression of savefiles named *.gz (#578)

[Michael Richardson <mcr () sandelman ca>]

Ray Bellis <notifications () github com> wrote:
    > Support for .gz handling on writes to follow, since those don't work
    > nicely in conjunction with file rotation. Having gzip invoked with the
    > post-rotation processing option is very disk I/O intensive compared
    > with just writing out data in gzip format from the outset.

I have some concern with introducing a new libz.so or something dependancy to
libpcap.   I wonder if a popen("|gzip >") will work?

--
]               Never tell me the odds!                 | ipv6 mesh networks [
]   Michael Richardson, Sandelman Software Works        | network architect  [
]     mcr () sandelman ca  http://www.sandelman.ca/        |   ruby on rails    [

_______________________________________________
tcpdump-workers mailing list
tcpdump-workers () lists tcpdump org
https://lists.sandelman.ca/mailman/listinfo/tcpdump-workers