Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] GIOP + idl2eth

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From: Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2001 00:08:07 -0700
On Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:26:13PM -0500, Frank Singleton wrote:
> Also, there is an API to allow for both explicit and heuristic
> dissectors to register with GIOP. It can also read stringified
> IOR's from file.

...and if it can't find that file - which it looks for in the current
directory - it complains to the standard output.  ("giop_init()" and
"read_IOR_strings_from_file()".)

Is that file a *requirement*?  If so, one should be supplied with
Ethereal, even if it's empty.  If not, the dissector should complain
only if the file exists but can't be opened, and the complaint should
include the result of "strerror(errno)", so you know *why* it can't be
opened.

In any case, the file should probably be looked for somewhere other than
in whatever directory you happen to be in when you're running Ethereal -
for example, in the directory where other Ethereal global configuration
files are stored.