Re: Bit for starting / stopping / new Capture

[Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin () gmail com>]

2016-02-17 16:38 GMT+01:00 FIXED-TERM Scholz Tobias (DC-IA/EAI) <
fixed-term.Tobias.Scholz () boschrexroth de>:

> Hi Pascal,
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> thanks for your answer. I don’t get exactly the meaning of this routine
> functionality, but I think it is not what I’m searching for.
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> For my dissector I need a special bit or value as a trigger, which says,
> that e.g. the capture has stopped or starts new.
>
> E.g.:     capture isn’t running (stopped) à bit == FALSE

I do not understand your requirement. Maybe if you were explaining us what
you would like to achieve exactly, we could see whether such functionality
exists or not.


> Does it exist?
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> Tobias
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> *Von:* wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:
> wireshark-dev-bounces () wireshark org] *Im Auftrag von *Pascal Quantin
> *Gesendet:* Mittwoch, 17. Februar 2016 16:24
> *An:* Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev () wireshark org>
> *Betreff:* Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bit for starting / stopping / new Capture
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> Hi Tobias,
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> 2016-02-17 16:16 GMT+01:00 FIXED-TERM Scholz Tobias (DC-IA/EAI) <
> fixed-term.Tobias.Scholz () boschrexroth de>:
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> Hey,
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> I made some recherché, but couldn’t find any information to this topic. Is
> there a possibility to know (special bit for example), whether the user
> stopped, started the capture or opened Wireshark new?
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> That would be a great help for my dissector.
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> Not sure this is exactly your request, but you can register callbacks when
> a capture is started / loaded / reloaded (when a preference changes for
> example) and when it is closed with the following functions:
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> /**
>  * Allow protocols to register "init" routines, which are called before
>  * we make a pass through a capture file and dissect all its packets
>  * (e.g., when we read in a new capture file, or run a "filter packets"
>  * or "colorize packets" pass over the current capture file or when the
>  * preferences are changed).
>  */
> WS_DLL_PUBLIC void register_init_routine(void (*func)(void));
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> /**
>  * Allows protocols to register "cleanup" routines which are called
>  * after closing a capture file (or when preferences are changed, in
>  * that case these routines are called before the init routines are
>  * executed). It can be used to release resources that are allocated in
>  * register_init_routine.
>  */
> WS_DLL_PUBLIC void register_cleanup_routine(void (*func)(void));
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> Hope it helps,
>
> Pascal.
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