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Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length
From: Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>
Date: Mon, 17 Feb 2014 17:28:44 -0500
On 02/17/14 17:07, Evan Huus wrote:
After yet another patch submission where this was unclear, I would like to propose the following change: tvb_length, tvb_length_remaining, etc. are changed to all operate on the reported length on the wire tvb_reported_* are dropped in favor of tvb_captured_* which operate on the available captured length (what is currently given by just tvb_length). The problem is that 95% of the time the intended behaviour is best achieved by the reported length, but 95% of the time people new to the API pick up on tvb_length and friends and assume that's what they want. I realize this is a subtly breaking behavioral change to the API, but I figure in the long run it will make a lot of things much simpler. It also gives a mental model which is IMHO slightly nicer: the TVB represents the entire packet with potentially-incomplete backing data, instead of representing the backing data of a potentially-bigger-on-the-inside packet. Thoughts?
+1 from me. One of the emails from this thread: https://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200909/msg00291.html has been sitting in my "todo" list for, well, coming up on 5 years! ___________________________________________________________________________ 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:
- Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Evan Huus (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jakub Zawadzki (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Gilbert Ramirez (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Jeff Morriss (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Hadriel Kaplan (Feb 17)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Alexis La Goutte (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Dirk Jagdmann (Feb 18)
- Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length Guy Harris (Feb 18)
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