On Apr 14, 2017, at 12:41 PM, Guy Harris <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Apr 14, 2017, at 3:41 AM, Paul Offord <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> I need some advice.  I’m debugging a problem with a dissector I’ve written.  
>> Tshark fails with:
>> … \epan\prefs.c:414:prefs_register_module_or_subtree: assertion failed: 
>> (g_ascii_islower(c) || g_ascii_isdigit(c) || c == '_' || c == '-' || c == 
>> '.')
> 
> Your dissector probably has, in its "filter name", a character that is not 
> any of 'a'-'z', '_', '-', or '.'.

No, that's "your *protocol* probably has...", but the code to register a 
protocol should already be catching that and failing.

So perhaps you're directly calling prefs_register_module() and passing it a 
module name containing a character that's not one of those.  Don't do that in a 
dissector - call prefs_register_protocol(), which uses the protocol's filter 
name as the preferences module name.

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