Re: was: Adding Files to Wireshark (new developer)

[Bill Meier <wmeier () newsguy com>]

On 4/1/2011 12:57 PM, Chaswi Przellczyk wrote:

> Dear Stephen,
>
> that would be a good way to get this solved. I went ahead and
> modified packet-rtp.c to add a field for a sampling-rate preference.
> That works nice. BUT the preferences are typically used in the
> dissectors, which is not true for my case. I can make the variable
> visible in all files (make it truly global), but I'm wondering if
> that's the right way to go. At the very least it would differ from
> what I've seen in other source-files. Is there a different way of
> accessing these preferences "correctly"?


Take at look at the data struct passed to register_tap() (or whatever
it's called) when the tap is created by the dissector.

I'm not a 'tap' expert, but I think a ptr to that struct is passed to
the tap callback fcn called for each frame.

Also  see doc/README.tapping



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