Am 25.03.2011 um 17:06 schrieb Chris Maynard <chris.mayn...@gtech.com>:
> Roland Knall <rknall@...> writes: > >> 1. Is there a way to provide additional information to the >> subdissector? Someone could use private_data, but that field I need >> somewhere else, therefore can not be used here. > > I haven't looked at the patch or anything, but I just wanted to comment on > this > part. If you want/need to use the private data, you can do what several > dissectors do and save a pointer to the current private_data before replacing > the pinfo->private_data with your own, then restore the original afterwards. > One example is packet-http.c, but there are others. (search for > "save_private_data") I thought of that. But the main argument against the use of the private data would be, that the subdissector isn't expecting the data in that place. Anyway, I do not need the functionality anyway, just thought that there should be a way of dealing with such cases. kind regards, Roland ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-requ...@wireshark.org?subject=unsubscribe
