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-rw-r--r-- | tshark.c | 17 |
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@@ -4318,6 +4318,23 @@ show_print_file_io_error(int err) break; #endif + case EPIPE: + /* + * This almost certainly means "the next program after us in + * the pipeline exited before we were finished writing", so + * this isn't a real error, it just means we're done. (We + * don't get SIGPIPE because libwireshark ignores SIGPIPE + * to avoid getting killed if writing to the MaxMind process + * gets SIGPIPE because that process died.) + * + * Presumably either that program exited deliberately (for + * example, "head -N" read N lines and printed them), in + * which case there's no error to report, or it terminated + * due to an error or a signal, in which case *that's* the + * error and that error has been reported. + */ + break; + default: cmdarg_err("An error occurred while printing packets: %s.", g_strerror(err)); |