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authorFrancois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr>2018-09-10 10:07:34 +0200
committerFrancois-Xavier Le Bail <devel.fx.lebail@orange.fr>2018-09-10 16:26:57 +0200
commite2293be847464567fb59a532759e61c712893549 (patch)
tree382243478ec530059c7ae7ba9ced9478a139e4a9 /tcpdump.c
parentd5ca317dbdd246205f88b62fea2e765341bc9706 (diff)
downloadtcpdump-e2293be847464567fb59a532759e61c712893549.tar.gz
Make the invalid snaplen message clearer
Diffstat (limited to 'tcpdump.c')
-rw-r--r--tcpdump.c3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tcpdump.c b/tcpdump.c
index 65defd0d..7cd07634 100644
--- a/tcpdump.c
+++ b/tcpdump.c
@@ -1709,7 +1709,8 @@ main(int argc, char **argv)
ndo->ndo_snaplen = strtol(optarg, &end, 0);
if (optarg == end || *end != '\0'
|| ndo->ndo_snaplen < 0 || ndo->ndo_snaplen > MAXIMUM_SNAPLEN)
- error("invalid snaplen %s", optarg);
+ error("invalid snaplen %s (must be >= 0 and <= %d)",
+ optarg, MAXIMUM_SNAPLEN);
break;
case 'S':