Re: Dissecting with variable length fields

Kees Cook <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.network.ethereal.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 03:31:58PM -0700, Stephen Fisher wrote:
> I am writing a new dissector for the exec/rexec protocol and am new to 
> Ethereal development.  What is the best way to dissect a protocol whose 
> fields are variable length null terminated strings?

tvb_get_stringz() works great for this.  See doc/README.developer:

guint8 *tvb_get_stringz(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint *lengthp);
guint8 *tvb_get_ephemeral_stringz(tvbuff_t *tvb, gint offset, gint *lengthp);

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Kees Cook                                            @outflux.net
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