On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:37 PM, Jeff Morriss <[email protected]>wrote:

>
>
> yami wrote:
> > Hi dev,
> >
> > In doc/READE.tapping, section 'WHEN DO TAP LISTENERS GET CALLED' says:
> >
> >   Tap listeners are only called when Wireshark reads a new capture for
> >    the first time or whenever Wireshark needs to rescan/redissect
> >    the capture.
> >
> > Could anyone tell me the code place to ensure this? I could not find the
> > related code.
>
> Well, I don't think it's a case of ensuring that but rather a question
> of when Wireshark needs to redissect a packet: whenever Wireshark needs
> to (re)dissect a packet then it will call the dissectors again which
> will in turn send the packet to the taps.
>

>From code in file.c:add_packet_to_packet_list(), it seems to me that a
packet is ALWAYS dissected by this function. Is that right? If it is the
case, then README.tapping probably is not right.

Am I missing anything here?


>
> > BTW,  in section 'TAP LISTENER' 2nd sentence, 'sInterfacing' should be
> > 'Interfacing'.
>
> Fixed, thanks.
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