Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] README.plugins

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From: Frank Singleton <frank.singleton@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 07:04:18 -0500
Ed Warnicke wrote:
> 
> As promised, I've checked in a README.plugins.
> 
> Ed
> 

Hi, 
I am busy busy with idl2eth stuff and saw the traffic
on giop and plugins. Does Guy's statement below still stand
regarding plugins ?


> 
> They're called "plugins". :-)
> 
> (Yes, you can put more than one protocol into a plugin.  There's
> currently no *automatic* provision for linking multiple independent
> files, each with its own dissector and register routines, into a single
> plugin, so you'd have to have a common "plugin_init()" routine call all
> of their registration and initialization routines and a common
> "plugin_reg_handoff()" routine call all of their handoff routines.
> 
> You might also have to add additional routines to the plugin address
> table, so that they can be called from plugins.)
> 


/Frank..

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