Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Source, Destination, Protocol, Info columns values missing.

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 20:51:11 -0700

On Jun 9, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Ravi Kondamuru wrote:

Thanks a lot. That was precisely the issue. I was setting all columns and calling subdissector inside if (tree) {...}.

Has this behavior changed between revisions 18189 of Ethereal and 18418 of Wiretap? As explained in my original problem description, the above code works in the ethereal code base.

Has the requirement that subdissectors be called regardless of whether "tree" is null or not changed? No - that's been the case for a long time, and dissectors calling subdissectors only when "tree" is not null have had problems in Ethereal for a long time.

Was there a problem causing dissectors to be called with a non-null "tree" argument even when the protocol tree wasn't required, and was that problem fixed between revisions 18189 and 18418? Possibly - I don't know, but I think some problems of that sort might have been fixed.