On Mar 27, 2008, at 2:35 AM, Luis EG Ontanon wrote:
> My first thought was at a "delayed" initilalization (initialize just
> them when needed, right when the dissector gets called for the first
> time), but this has a major drawback not being there at initialization
> the dynamic fields from these protocols could not be used in tshark
> (or in wireshark up until when the first packet is dissected). i.e.
> something like:
> tshark 'radius.UserName == "pippo"'
> would not be possible.
Initialize them just when needed, when either
1) the dissector gets called for the first time
or
2) a display filter reference occurs for a field name that would
belong to the dissector, and that field name isn't found
which would require a way for a dissector to register a "wildcard"
field name with a callback.
That then opens up the possibility doing that for *all* dissectors,
which might further speed up startup.
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