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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Luacov with Wireshark Lua dissector plugin

From: Peter Wu <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2018 16:31:09 +0100
On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 04:14:33PM +0530, Shakthi Kannan wrote:
> But, the plugin fails to load with the message
> "~/.luarocks/share/lua/5.1/luacov/hook.lua:26:attempt to index global
> 'debug' (a function value)". I had filed a query to Luacov at:
> 
>   https://github.com/keplerproject/luacov/issues/55
> 
> In luacov/hook.lua, the following debug function is being invoked:
> 
>   -- Get name of processed file
>   local name = debug.getinfo(level, "S").source  -- line #26
> 
> The Luacov author mentions that Wireshark is invoking the 'debug'
> function instead of the 'debug' module. How can this be resolved?

It looks like "console.lua" is setting the "debug" function. Perhaps
those "helpers" should be removed or namespaced, as a workaround you can
just comment the debug function:

    -- function debug(x) ... end
-- 
Kind regards,
Peter Wu
https://lekensteyn.nl