I've a work-in-progress that has already addressed 3 and 4, and will do the
others (plus a whole lot more) soon
Martin Visser
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Guy Harris [mailto:gharris@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Tuesday, 13 March 2001 6:10 PM
> To: Guy Harris
> Cc: Paul Schulz; ethereal-dev@xxxxxxxxxxxx; pschulz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [Ethereal-dev] (possible) Packet Fence Patch for CVS
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 12, 2001 at 11:48:11AM -0800, Guy Harris wrote:
> > It might also be fixed by changing the packet fence code to include
> > "dfilter/dfilter.h", rather than just "dfilter.h", which is what the
> > code in Ethereal does.
> >
> > If that fixes it,
>
> It does, but the correct fix is not to include it at all!
> It, like many
> of the other header files include by "packet_fence.c", doesn't need to
> be included.
>
> Here's a version of the packet fence patch, plus "packet_fence.h" and
> "packet_fence.c", that
>
> 1) is a patch against the current code in CVS, rather than an
> old version of Ethereal;
>
> 2) includes a *lot* fewer header files in "packet_fence.c" (only
> the ones that are needed are included - and
> "dfilter/dfilter.h" is not one that's needed...);
>
> 3) calls "packet_fence_update_ruler()" after creating the ruler,
> so that the upper and lower limits of the ruler's range are
> set very early in its life - without that, Ethereal crashed
> when started up, as both limits were zero when the ruler was
> exposed, and, when trying to compute something that involved
> dividing by the difference between those limits, it got a
> zero divide fault);
>
> 4) fixes up some errors in "gtkclist.c" (you can't use
> "g_return_if_fail()" in a non-void function, you have to use
> "gtk_return_val_if_fail()".
>
> Martin, you should probably update your version of the packet
> fence code
> with these versions, and update the patch.
>
