Wireshark-bugs: [Wireshark-bugs] [Bug 8590] Have libwiretap handle non-packet records in capture

Date: Thu, 25 Jul 2013 20:00:45 +0000

Comment # 9 on bug 8590 from
Is there something I can do to help?  I'm still new to the codebase, but I have
time to assist.

(In reply to comment #6)
> (In reply to comment #5)
> > It's been ~2 months. What (if anything) was decided here?
> 
> It looks, more or less, as if we somewhat converged on the approach I
> proposed:
> 
>     http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201304/msg00162.html
> 
>     http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/201304/msg00170.html
> 
> in which libwiretap provides "records" rather than "packets", with some
> records being provided in a standardized format (such as records containing
> packets) and others being provided in capture-file-format-specific form, and
> code running atop libwiretap, such as libwireshark, supporting a table into
> which libwiretap routines or plugin routines could register to handle
> particular record types.
> 
> I'm currently working on some infrastructural changes to support that.


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