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Use shared libraries for dissectors?
From: Richard Sharpe <realrichardsharpe () gmail com>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2012 07:23:07 -0700
Hi folks, One of the problems I see is that the startup time of Wireshark can be long because of the size of the Wireshark binary. There are a large number of protocols in Wireshark now, many of which I don't use. There is also the initialization time for each of those protocols. I would like to be able to specify which dissectors I want to load, and then only load the dissectors I am going to use for my normal work. An approach like this would work, it seems to me (and is similar to Samba). In your preferences (or similar) have something like "load protocol" where protocol is the name of a .so, like packet-smb.so, or just smb.so. We already almost have a single entrypoint for each dissector that could perform all the needed registration. We could also ship a default file that loads all the protocols, and people can trim those they don't want. -- Regards, Richard Sharpe (何以解憂?唯有杜康。--曹操) ___________________________________________________________________________ Sent via: Wireshark-dev mailing list <wireshark-dev () wireshark org> Archives: http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev Unsubscribe: https://wireshark.org/mailman/options/wireshark-dev mailto:wireshark-dev-request () wireshark org?subject=unsubscribe
Current thread:
- Use shared libraries for dissectors? Richard Sharpe (Jun 29)
- Re: Use shared libraries for dissectors? Jakub Zawadzki (Jun 29)
- Re: Use shared libraries for dissectors? Stephen Fisher (Jun 29)