Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Initialization order of tshark -z tap listener modules?

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Lars Ruoff wrote:

> can i expect that init functions (the one registered in
> register_tap_listener_xxx with a call to register_stat_cmd_arg)  of
> tshark "-z" analysis modules are called in order of command line
> declaration (left-to-right)?

That might be what happens now, but there's no guarantee of the order in 
which the init routines get called.

Is there some case where you need the init routines for two modules be 
called in a particular order?  (Note that, for dissector registration 
routines, this is handled by having the registration take place in two 
phases, with all the first-phase routines called before any of the 
second-phase routines; perhaps something such as that is needed here.)