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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Some questions about the "option block" interface in libwire

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 20 May 2016 17:17:52 -0700
On May 20, 2016, at 4:28 PM, Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Your examples are fixed fields in pcapng, so presumably we're talking about making them options in the "generic" layer libwiretap.

And, yes, that means that the API wouldn't exactly reflect the pcapng file format.  That wouldn't a bug, that would be a feature....