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authorHadriel Kaplan <hadrielk@yahoo.com>2014-03-14 21:12:10 -0400
committerAnders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>2014-03-15 08:17:04 +0000
commitf75f1d54c4bad6bd130af924b5dba71fb5774652 (patch)
tree9a40f7e3be0a66c4487306dcb048480b9d94715e /doc
parentc7383faea4d9d0e5c59b58c0f871e91b93d3f425 (diff)
Fix README.heuristic wording to Bill Meier's correction
Change-Id: Ifeb61abdcc7aa049529d584ff3fe50b6fd79fe21 Reviewed-on: https://code.wireshark.org/review/662 Reviewed-by: Anders Broman <a.broman58@gmail.com>
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1 files changed, 4 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/README.heuristic b/doc/README.heuristic
index c2830a82c6..1d99bde5db 100644
--- a/doc/README.heuristic
+++ b/doc/README.heuristic
@@ -150,8 +150,10 @@ dissect_PROTOABBREV_heur(tvbuff_t *tvb, packet_info *pinfo, proto_tree *tree, vo
/* Assume it's your packet ... */
- /* specify that dissect_PROTOABBREV is to be called directly from now on for packets for this "connection" ...
- * but ONLY do this if your heuristic sits directly on top of UDP or TCP (ie, you did heur_dissector_add("tcp",...)),
+ /* specify that dissect_PROTOABBREV is to be called directly from now on for
+ * packets for this "connection" ... but only do this if your heuristic sits directly
+ * on top of (was called by) a dissector which established a conversation for the
+ * protocol "port type". In other words: only directly over TCP, UDP, DCCP, ...
* otherwise you'll be overriding the dissector that called your heuristic dissector.
*/
conversation = find_or_create_conversation(pinfo);