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| author | Guy Lewin <guy@lewin.co.il> | 2018-04-08 01:46:53 +0300 |
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| committer | Guy Lewin <guy@lewin.co.il> | 2018-04-08 01:46:53 +0300 |
| commit | 0e79762874a89048cb1606234b8b26ba8ca190ee (patch) | |
| tree | eae3290dbb0c44089bddf224705311a8587cfff6 /tcpdump.1.in | |
| parent | ff30ebc5428e7f51c8970cba84f5c7e292c0ae42 (diff) | |
| download | tcpdump-0e79762874a89048cb1606234b8b26ba8ca190ee.tar.gz | |
Separate flushing the packet buffer from SIGINFO to SIGUSR2
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| -rw-r--r-- | tcpdump.1.in | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/tcpdump.1.in b/tcpdump.1.in index eced6958..e9831e2d 100644 --- a/tcpdump.1.in +++ b/tcpdump.1.in @@ -212,6 +212,10 @@ in order to use it) and will continue capturing packets. On platforms that do not support the SIGINFO signal, the same can be achieved by using the SIGUSR1 signal. .LP +Using the SIGUSR2 signal along with the +.B \-w +flag will forcibly flush the packet buffer into the output file. +.LP Reading packets from a network interface may require that you have special privileges; see the .B pcap (3PCAP) |