Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 19777: /trunk/ /trunk/: capture-pcap
From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 07 Nov 2006 01:51:36 -0800
Ulf Lamping wrote:

What are the reasons of the following changes in capture_loop.c:

I've backed those out, for the reasons noted; the right way to fix null-pointer dereferences in routines not defined to accept null pointers is not to add checks to those routines, it's to avoid passing those routines null pointers.