Ethereal-dev: [Ethereal-dev] Re:What if I didn't use conversations?

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From: "Sofia Altieri" <sofiaaltieri@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2006 09:09:51 +0000
Hello
I'm successfully using conversation to store data about packets dissected : ) So, for instance if 'packet A' cointains the OPCODE and 'packet A1' parameters I can easily relate one another. Since conversation_t structure as a GList pointer to the data added I've solved also
the following issue:

A                     B                      A1                      B1
time ------>  (B follows A, A1 follows B and so on)

What I do is to use g_slist_find_custom () with an appropriate GCompareFunc() and find for the packet I need (then if A1 comes after B it's still dissected correctedly)

But I was wondering whether I actually needed a conversation to do this. I mean, isn't it simpler to just define a global GList and put info into it? (A global GList should keep opcode infoes permanently during the dissect phase, if i m not shamely wrong:- ) ).

Thanx


That's what i was wondering about too. When are conversations necessary and when one can substitute them with global struct?

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