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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] epan_t and capture_file

From: Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:10:00 -0700
On Apr 13, 2017, at 10:52 AM, Simon Barber <simon.barber@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Why are they loosely coupled?

In theory, libwireshark could be used in a program that doesn't have a "capture file" from which the packets come.