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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Pidl patch for ABSOLUTE_TIMEs

From: "Maynard, Chris" <Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2010 11:44:12 -0400
My apologies Jeff.  I mistakenly thought the dissector was maintained by wireshark.org not samba.org, and I didn't notice that it was only CC'd here.  I just saw the [Wireshark-dev] in the subject line.

BTW, it looks like samba.org does have their own bug tracker: https://bugzilla.samba.org/. 

- Chris

-----Original Message-----
From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss
Sent: Sunday, April 25, 2010 7:55 PM
To: Developer support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Pidl patch for ABSOLUTE_TIMEs

Well, I'm not sure that Samba (the list to whom that mail was sent)
has a bugzilla or not.  (Wireshark-dev was just in Cc: so the
Wireshark developers would know that I know that I modified a
Pidl-generated file and was attempting to send the patch upstream to
where Pidl is maintained.)

On Sun, Apr 25, 2010 at 2:50 PM, Maynard, Chris
<Christopher.Maynard@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Maybe it would be better to open a new bug for this so it's not forgotten about?  And maybe the Pidl Wiki page should be updated to indicate that patches should be submitted via bugzilla instead?  Or not.  I just know that the core developers don't always have the time to review and commit the patches right away so if it's filed with bugzilla, then it won't be lost or forgotten.
> - Chris
> ________________________________________
> From: wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [wireshark-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jeff Morriss [jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Saturday, April 24, 2010 3:07 PM
> To: samba-technical@xxxxxxxxx
> Cc: Developer support list for Wireshark
> Subject: [Wireshark-dev] Pidl patch for ABSOLUTE_TIMEs
>
> Hello,
>
> The Wireshark Wiki page:
>
> http://wiki.wireshark.org/Pidl
>
> says to send patches against Pidl to this address.
>
> Pidl generates some Wireshark dissector fields of type
> FT_ABSOLUTE_TIME.  Starting some time not too long ago, these fields
> need a 'display' field other than BASE_NONE or BASE_DEC.  The attached
> patch fixes this, *assuming* that all the times are "local."  Other
> options include:
>
>        ABSOLUTE_TIME_UTC,      /* UTC, with month and day */
>        ABSOLUTE_TIME_DOY_UTC   /* UTC, with 1-origin day-of-year */
>
> For now (to keep Wireshark running) I've modified the dcerpc-lsa
> dissector manually; this is my attempt to push the patch upstream.
>
> Regards,
> -Jeff
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