Hi Pascal,
thanks for your answer. I don’t get exactly the meaning of this routine functionality, but I think it is not what I’m searching for.
For my dissector I need a special bit or value as a trigger, which says, that e.g. the capture has stopped or starts new.
E.g.: capture isn’t running (stopped)
à bit == FALSE
Does it exist?
Tobias
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Im Auftrag von Pascal Quantin
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Betreff: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Bit for starting / stopping / new Capture
Hi Tobias,
2016-02-17 16:16 GMT+01:00 FIXED-TERM Scholz Tobias (DC-IA/EAI) <fixed-term.Tobias.Scholz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
I made some recherché, but couldn’t find any information to this topic. Is there a possibility to know (special bit for example), whether the user stopped, started the capture
or opened Wireshark new?
That would be a great help for my dissector.
Not sure this is exactly your request, but you can register callbacks when a capture is started / loaded / reloaded (when a preference changes for example) and when it is closed with the following functions:
/**
* Allow protocols to register "init" routines, which are called before
* we make a pass through a capture file and dissect all its packets
* (e.g., when we read in a new capture file, or run a "filter packets"
* or "colorize packets" pass over the current capture file or when the
* preferences are changed).
*/
WS_DLL_PUBLIC void register_init_routine(void (*func)(void));
/**
* Allows protocols to register "cleanup" routines which are called
* after closing a capture file (or when preferences are changed, in
* that case these routines are called before the init routines are
* executed). It can be used to release resources that are allocated in
* register_init_routine.
*/
WS_DLL_PUBLIC void register_cleanup_routine(void (*func)(void));
