Re: Rename TVB captured length vs reported length

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws () gmail com>]

On 02/17/14 17:44, Jakub Zawadzki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 05:07:04PM -0500, 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,
>
> What's the use case of remaining 5%? Heuristic dissectors?

Yes (so we can check if it's our packet without throwing an exception). 
 And "can I do reassembly/checksum/whatever?"  (aka "do I have the 
whole packet?")

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