From 6f5916eb363ad2eb053b8917f76c458bb8658495 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guy Harris Date: Sun, 5 Mar 2006 04:11:57 +0000 Subject: In the capture_loop.c code, open the capture device for input before doing anything with the output file, so that 1) if the attempt to open the capture device fails, we don't bother creating any output files; 2) we could relinquish privileges permanently as soon as we finish opening the capture device, so we don't have to give them up temporarily when opening the output file, reclaim them to open the input device, and then give them up permanently; (we already do that in Tethereal). While we're at it, set the capture filter immediately after opening the capture device, so we quit before opening capture devices if that fails. svn path=/trunk/; revision=17468 --- tethereal.c | 12 ++++++------ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'tethereal.c') diff --git a/tethereal.c b/tethereal.c index 176607996b..30176210d9 100644 --- a/tethereal.c +++ b/tethereal.c @@ -1548,12 +1548,6 @@ capture(void) */ relinquish_special_privs_perm(); - /* open the output file (temporary/specified name/ringbuffer/named pipe/stdout) */ - if (!capture_loop_open_output(&capture_opts, &save_file_fd, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))) { - *secondary_errmsg = '\0'; - goto error; - } - /* init the input filter from the network interface (capture pipe will do nothing) */ switch (capture_loop_init_filter(ld.pcap_h, ld.from_cap_pipe, capture_opts.iface, capture_opts.cfilter)) { @@ -1573,6 +1567,12 @@ capture(void) goto error; } + /* open the output file (temporary/specified name/ringbuffer/named pipe/stdout) */ + if (!capture_loop_open_output(&capture_opts, &save_file_fd, errmsg, sizeof(errmsg))) { + *secondary_errmsg = '\0'; + goto error; + } + /* set up to write to the already-opened capture output file/files */ if(!capture_loop_init_output(&capture_opts, save_file_fd, &ld, errmsg, sizeof errmsg)) { *secondary_errmsg = '\0'; -- cgit v1.2.3