Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Rename TVB captured length vs reported length

[Dirk Jagdmann <doj@xxxxxxxxx>]

> You *can* continue dissecting the protocol.  You just get an exception, so that the user sees that the data was in the packet, but the snapshot length was set too short to capture it.  Stopping dissection just because the data to be dissected was cut off by a snapshot length is entirely the wrong thing to do, as it can make it look as if the packet didn't have the data in question.

That's my point. Not all of the code I have written will get executed, because
data is missing. And if the next frame needs information from previous frames to
dissect, my dissection of the protocol stops here.

Of course there's nothing I can do about it. I just wanted to point out, that
not only 5% is the dissector code requires access to all data to be useful. My
main point is however to not use "tvb_length" any more at all, because different
developers will interpret it differently. Use the longer, but explicit function
names.

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