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authorGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2011-08-24 02:25:08 +0000
committerGuy Harris <guy@alum.mit.edu>2011-08-24 02:25:08 +0000
commit898334c7a55237ae18dbff30a608c5eb3cd7c348 (patch)
tree44f2761af8eb38c7f304d2c981b4ac010b2cdb34 /capture_sync.c
parent2ab112d5ddbb5c342622c1562f86189a4d0d4131 (diff)
Fix a comment; this includes describing an additional way in which we
could fail to open the capture file. svn path=/trunk/; revision=38695
Diffstat (limited to 'capture_sync.c')
-rw-r--r--capture_sync.c18
1 files changed, 13 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/capture_sync.c b/capture_sync.c
index 8ef2ed148a..156e9ed31e 100644
--- a/capture_sync.c
+++ b/capture_sync.c
@@ -1612,11 +1612,19 @@ sync_pipe_input_cb(gint source, gpointer user_data)
alerted. Close the sync pipe. */
ws_close(source);
- /* the child has send us a filename which we couldn't open.
- this probably means, the child is creating files faster than we can handle it.
- this should only be the case for very fast file switches
- we can't do much more than telling the child to stop
- (this is the "emergency brake" if user e.g. wants to switch files every second) */
+ /* The child has sent us a filename which we couldn't open.
+
+ This could mean that the child is creating files faster
+ than we can handle it. (XXX - why would that result in
+ a failure to open the file?)
+
+ That should only be the case for very fast file switches;
+ We can't do much more than telling the child to stop.
+ (This is the "emergency brake" if the user e.g. wants to
+ switch files every second). */
+
+ This can also happen if the user specified "-", meaning
+ "standard output", as the capture file. */
sync_pipe_stop(capture_opts);
capture_input_closed(capture_opts, NULL);
return FALSE;