Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Re: Multipel protocols in one TCP frame

[Michael Tuexen <Michael.Tuexen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear all,

when you call col_set_fence the text in that column will not be
overwritten when you call col_set_str and so on.

I hope that helps.

Best regards
Michael

On Jan 20, 2005, at 0:29 Uhr, Ulf Lamping wrote:

> Anders Broman wrote:
>
> > Him
> > I saw  your entry on the Wiki, this can be handled by
> > "col_set_fence(pinfo->cinfo,COL_INFO);" in the dissector see h225 for 
> > an
> > example,
> > Where this was a problem before.
> > Included a file with multiple frames in it.
> Thanks!
>
> Interesting, but what will col_set_fence do?
>
> The only documentation I've found while doing a quick search was in 
> column_utils.h was:
>
> "/* Sets the fence for a column to be at the end of the column. */"
>
> Well, great explanation :-(
>
> Question comes quickly to my mind: What *is* a fence for a column?!?
>
> We might enhance documentation for it right now, as you seem to know a 
> lot more than me and the comments :-) and I didn't had a closer look 
> at the sources.
>
> Regards, ULFL
>
> P.S: I've CC'ed to the dev list, as others might be interested too!
>
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