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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 52341: /trunk/epan/ /trunk/epan/diss

From: Joerg Mayer <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 4 Oct 2013 17:35:36 +0200
On Fri, Oct 04, 2013 at 10:12:08AM -0400, mmann78@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> I like the suggestion of a "_ws." prefix, but my hesitation is backwards compatibility.  The only "not real" protocol filter I use consistently is "malformed" and I like that simplicity.  And the other "protocols" in show_exception.c seem reasonable, but like you said, it starts to get ugly for some of the "lesser" error cases.  

IMO we should not change the 1.10 code, but I don't mind breaking things
in 1.11 - we are doing that all the time. Of course it needs to be part
of the 1.12/2.0 release notes.

> Should I provide a patch here with your suggestion or log something in Bugzilla for people to test?

Both methods are fine with me, maybe a ml post will draw more responses.

Ciao
     Jörg
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Joerg Mayer                                           <jmayer@xxxxxxxxx>
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