Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to be consistent

2007-01-29 Thread Hannes Gredler
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 10:54:44AM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote: | On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: | : well the correct thing would then be: | : | : 1. embrace .SFP into Flags [.SPF], | : 2. add commas to sep. the rest of the field | | I don't see commas (in general)

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to be consistent

2007-01-28 Thread Kevin Steves
On Thu, Jan 18, 2007 at 08:36:34AM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: : well the correct thing would then be: : : 1. embrace .SFP into Flags [.SPF], : 2. add commas to sep. the rest of the field I don't see commas (in general) adding to readability of fields when you have 'field-name value' or when pos

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to be consistent

2007-01-17 Thread Hannes Gredler
well the correct thing would then be: 1. embrace .SFP into Flags [.SPF], 2. add commas to sep. the rest of the field /hannes On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 07:25:07PM -0800, Kevin Steves wrote: | On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:42:48PM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: | : can you re-explain your concern ? | : w

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to be consistent

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Steves
On Wed, Jan 17, 2007 at 11:42:48PM +0100, Hannes Gredler wrote: : can you re-explain your concern ? : we use the comma here as a means of seperating : fields suitable to human-processors. 3 main issues: 0) not consistent with rest of tcp output (no commas used) 1) distracts from output (e.g., see

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to

2007-01-17 Thread Stephen Donnelly
On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 11:56 -0800, Rick Jones wrote: > Kevin Steves wrote: > > commas aren't used in tcp fields so remove these that are > > before and after cksum. > > i'm not necessarily trying to stop the patch, but while it may not be > consistent with other output, maintaining "consistency"

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to

2007-01-17 Thread Hannes Gredler
can you re-explain your concern ? we use the comma here as a means of seperating fields suitable to human-processors. /hannes Kevin Steves wrote: commas aren't used in tcp fields so remove these that are before and after cksum. Index: print-tcp.c ===

Re: [tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to

2007-01-17 Thread Rick Jones
Kevin Steves wrote: commas aren't used in tcp fields so remove these that are before and after cksum. i'm not necessarily trying to stop the patch, but while it may not be consistent with other output, maintaining "consistency" with previous versions has the nice property of being less likely

[tcpdump-workers] print-tcp.c: remove commas from output, to be consistent

2007-01-17 Thread Kevin Steves
commas aren't used in tcp fields so remove these that are before and after cksum. Index: print-tcp.c === RCS file: /tcpdump/master/tcpdump/print-tcp.c,v retrieving revision 1.126 diff -u -r1.126 print-tcp.c --- print-tcp.c 2 Nov 2006