Re: Parsing variable length protocol trailer

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Apr 28, 2010, at 12:30 PM, Maynard, Chris wrote:

> Rather than allow the "Katamari" (as Guy once fittingly referred to pinfo as) to grow even more by my earlier quick 
> suggestion of adding a field to indicate the number of bytes consumed by the sub-dissector, might there instead be 
> some value in adding some new-style dissector_try_port/heuristic() functions that return the number of bytes 
> dissected rather than simply TRUE or FALSE?

Unfortunately, as I discovered when investigating having dissectors return number of bytes dissected *and* have that be 
an accepted/rejected indication, there are some cases where a dissector dissects zero bytes of packet data *but* 
accepts the packet.  I'd have to dig a bit to remember when that happened.  It might not matter with heuristic 
dissectors.
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