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diff --git a/doc/README.design b/doc/README.design index 94705b6797..c88d6307b7 100644 --- a/doc/README.design +++ b/doc/README.design @@ -1,21 +1,21 @@ $Id$ Unfortunately, the closest thing to a design document is the -"README.developer" document in the "doc" directory of the Ethereal +"README.developer" document in the "doc" directory of the Wireshark source tree; however, although that's useful for people adding new -protocol dissectors to Ethereal, it doesn't describe the operations of -the "core" of Ethereal. +protocol dissectors to Wireshark, it doesn't describe the operations of +the "core" of Wireshark. We have no document describing that; however, a quick summary of the part of the code you'd probably be working with is: - for every capture file that Ethereal has open, there's a - "capture_file" structure - Ethereal currently supports only one + for every capture file that Wireshark has open, there's a + "capture_file" structure - Wireshark currently supports only one open capture file at a time, and that structure is named "cfile" (see the "file.h" header file); that structure has a member "plist", which points to a - "frame_data" structure - every link-layer frame that Ethereal + "frame_data" structure - every link-layer frame that Wireshark has read in has a "frame_data" structure (see the "epan/packet.h" header file), the "plist" member of "cfile" points to the first frame, and each frame has a "next" member |