Re: Disabling a dissector doesn't seem to quite work.

[Joerg Mayer <jmayer () loplof de>]

On Sat, Sep 15, 2012 at 03:44:59PM -0700, Guy Harris wrote:
> > My understanding of dissectors registering to port 0 was simply a method for
> > allowing "Decode As" to work.
>
> The right way for a dissector to say "I run atop {TCP,UDP,...} but I don't have a standard port number, so use 
> "Decode As..."" is to call dissector_add() with a dissector handle and a dissector table name.

As dissector_add happens to be a) used nowhere and b) #defined to dissector_add_uint,
that may have been the case but is definitely not what today's code looks like.

If there's no opposition, I will remove that #define.

Ciao
 Jörg

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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer () loplof de>
We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that
works. Some say that should read Microsoft instead of technology.
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