Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] On the fly registering of a dissector and a po rt

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 01:27:04 -0700
On Wed, May 17, 2000 at 10:07:09AM +0200, andreas.sikkema@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> What happens between opening two files, do conversations etc. get 
> reinitialized?

Yes.  "open_cap_file()" calls "conversation_init()", which clears all
existing conversations, and "init_all_protocols()", which calls all
routines that protocol dissectors have registered as routines to call
when a new file is being read (to clear out any state).