Re: Copying TVBs for Reassembly [Was: Filebacked-tvbuffs : GSoC'13]

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:40 PM, Evan Huus <eapache () gmail com> wrote:

> The reassembly code could then add meta-data to this when
> reassembling, and the tvb could lazily refetch the underlying tvbs
> using the existing wiretap interface?

Lazily *regenerate* the underlying tvbs.

The "bottom-level" tvbs would be regenerated by reading packet data from the file.

However, there might be "intermediate-level" tvbs that do *not* contain data directly fetched from a file; instead, the 
data might have been decompressed, or decrypted, or de-encoded from base-64, or otherwise processed.  Consider a packet 
reassembled from 3 lower-leel chunks, the first of which came from a base-64 decoding of still lower-level data 
reassembled from 5 even lower-level decrypted packets....

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