On 02/17/14 17:44, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
Hi,
On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:07:04PM -0500, Evan Huus wrote:
After yet another patch submission where this was unclear, I would
like to propose the following change:
tvb_length, tvb_length_remaining, etc. are changed to all operate on
the reported length on the wire
tvb_reported_* are dropped in favor of tvb_captured_* which operate on
the available captured length (what is currently given by just
tvb_length).
The problem is that 95% of the time the intended behaviour is best
achieved by the reported length,
What's the use case of remaining 5%? Heuristic dissectors?
Yes (so we can check if it's our packet without throwing an exception).
And "can I do reassembly/checksum/whatever?" (aka "do I have the
whole packet?")