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Diffstat (limited to 'epan/epan.c')
| -rw-r--r-- | epan/epan.c | 22 |
1 files changed, 22 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/epan/epan.c b/epan/epan.c index cc4327d270..f06d4c0ea6 100644 --- a/epan/epan.c +++ b/epan/epan.c @@ -98,6 +98,12 @@ static GSList *epan_plugin_register_all_handoffs = NULL; static wmem_allocator_t *pinfo_pool_cache = NULL; +/* Global variables holding the content of the corresponding environment variable + * to save fetching it repeatedly. + */ +gboolean wireshark_abort_on_dissector_bug = FALSE; +gboolean wireshark_abort_on_too_many_items = FALSE; + #ifdef HAVE_PLUGINS plugins_t *libwireshark_plugins = NULL; static GSList *epan_plugins = NULL; @@ -192,6 +198,22 @@ epan_init(register_cb cb, gpointer client_data, gboolean load_plugins) { volatile gboolean status = TRUE; + /* Get the value of some environment variables and set corresponding globals for performance reasons*/ + /* If the WIRESHARK_ABORT_ON_DISSECTOR_BUG environment variable is set, + * it will call abort(), instead, to make it easier to get a stack trace. + */ + if (getenv("WIRESHARK_ABORT_ON_DISSECTOR_BUG") != NULL) { + wireshark_abort_on_dissector_bug = TRUE; + } else { + wireshark_abort_on_dissector_bug = FALSE; + } + + if (getenv("WIRESHARK_ABORT_ON_TOO_MANY_ITEMS") != NULL) { + wireshark_abort_on_too_many_items = TRUE; + } else { + wireshark_abort_on_too_many_items = FALSE; + } + /* * proto_init -> register_all_protocols -> g_async_queue_new which * requires threads to be initialized. This happens automatically with |