You welcome,
I made uat_load() idempotent to do exactly what you needed, It is
used in oids.c to set the path and list the MIBS to be loaded, as such
I needed it to be loaded at protocol registration and no later. To
avoid it being loaded twice uat_load marks the uat as loaded.
\Lego
On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 3:18 PM, Abhik Sarkar <sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Thank you, thank you, thank you, Luis! It never occurred to me that I could
> load it manually. This worked!
>
> Also, it turns out that my original approach did not work because UAT
> preferences is one of the only preference types which, if changed, doesn't
> lead to the calling of the apply_cb passed in prefs_register_protocol...
> Perhaps there is a reason for it, but for now, my requirement is met and I
> am submitting a new patch.
>
> Thanks again!
> Abhik.
>
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 8:06 AM, Luis EG Ontanon <luis@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> You can call uat_load() to have it loaded before preferences.
>>
>>
>>
>> 2009/3/25 Abhik Sarkar <sarkar.abhik@xxxxxxxxx>:
>> > Hi All,
>> >
>> > I want to read some data from a UAT while I am still in the registration
>> > functions. Going through the documentation and the code, it seems that
>> > all
>> > UAT tables are loaded when preferences are being read, and that if some
>> > registration needs to be done after preferences have been loaded, then
>> > it
>> > should be from inside proto_reg_handoff_protoname. My questions are:
>> > - is my understanding correct?
>> > - if not, is what I am trying to do possible at all?
>> > I am trying to revise the patch which I submitted originally for
>> > https://bugs.wireshark.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=3242
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> > Abhik.
>> >
>> >
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