Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] smb vs dcerpc error handling

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 2002 00:29:03 -0800
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 02:39:00PM +1100, Tim Potter wrote:
> Yes that's true - it might mess up the layout of the info column for
> plain smb packets.

...and, if the packet was captured with a short snapshot length, prevent
the error indication from showing up at all, if that causes an exception
to be thrown in the subdissector.

> Changing the return value of smb_dissect seems it bit yucky too.  )-:

It might be the lesser of two evils, however.