Add a function to get the column text of the nth column, taking
into account whether the column is resolved or unresolved. Use
this function in the GUI, as well as in tshark, when writing
PSML, exporting dissection to PSML, etc., instead of accessing
col_data directly.
This removes the direct accesses of col_data from outside
column.c and column-utils.c
Fix#18168.
If a configuration profile is requested on the command line that
does not exist as a personal profile but does exist as a global
profile, copy it to the personal directory and use it, the same
as when selecting a global profile in the GUI.
Add the same feature to tshark and tfshark as well, where it
is particularly useful.
Add a selected frame option that does pretty much what the name
indicates.
This is not meaningful in the CLI but is useful to simulate the
selected frame action in the GUI for unit testing purposes. The
option is not documented for that reason.
A selected frame is used in display filters with field references.
$ tshark -r ../test/captures/dhcp.pcap
1 0.000000 0.0.0.0 → 255.255.255.255 DHCP 314 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x3d1d
2 0.000295 192.168.0.1 → 192.168.0.10 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x3d1d
3 0.070031 0.0.0.0 → 255.255.255.255 DHCP 314 DHCP Request - Transaction ID 0x3d1e
4 0.070345 192.168.0.1 → 192.168.0.10 DHCP 342 DHCP ACK - Transaction ID 0x3d1e
$ tshark --selected-frame=2 -2 -Y 'frame.number <= ${frame.number}' -r ../test/captures/dhcp.pcap
1 0.000000 0.0.0.0 → 255.255.255.255 DHCP 314 DHCP Discover - Transaction ID 0x3d1d
2 0.000295 192.168.0.1 → 192.168.0.10 DHCP 342 DHCP Offer - Transaction ID 0x3d1d
If we don't have an offset, don't print anything with underline.
Also it can underline filters using macros correctly now.
$ tshark -Y 'ip and ${private_ipv4:ip.sr}' -r /dev/null
tshark: Left side of "==" expression must be a field or function, not "ip.sr".
ip and ip.sr == 192.168.0.0/16 or ip.sr == 172.16.0.0/12 or ip.sr == 10.0.0.0/8
^~~~~
Rename init_progfile_dir to configuration_init. Add an argument which
specifies our configuration namespace, which can be "Wireshark"
(default) or "Logwolf".
This allows the "needs to be reloaded" indication to be set in the close
process, as is the case for ERF; having a routine that returns the value
of that indication is not useful if it gets seet in the close process,
as the handle for the wtap_dumper is no longer valid after
wtap_dump_close() finishes.
We also get rid of wtap_dump_get_needs_reload(), as callers should get
that information via the added argument to wtap_dump_close().
Fixes#17989.
Add a separate menu for Strip Headers (similar to Export PDU, but exporting
to an encapsulation other than WIRESHARK_UPPER_PDU everything for
that encapsulation). Add to the usage output of tshark for the "-U"
option which encapsulation a export tap will produce.
Add docs/diagnostic-options.adoc, which is a snippet that documents our
various --log-* options. Include it in the dumpcap, rawshark, and tshark
man pages.
Make the ws_log_print_usage output more consistent.
This is a first pass that covers the WSDG, WSUG, man page, a code
comment and a README. Plenty left to do in the Debian files, a few
Lua examples and other misc files.
Besides the obvious limitation of being unavailable on Windows,
the standard is vague about getopt() and getopt_long() has many
non-portable pitfalls and buggy implementations, that increase
the maintainance cost a lot. Also the GNU libc code currently
in the tree is not suited for embedding and is unmaintainable.
Own maintainership for getopt_long() and use the musl implementation
everywhere. This way we don't need to worry if optreset is available,
or if the $OPERATING_SYSTEM version behaves in subtly different ways.
The API is under the Wireshark namespace to avoid conflicts with
system headers.
Side-note, the Mingw-w64 9.0 getopt_long() implementation is buggy
with opterr and known to crash. In my experience it's a headache to
use the embedded getopt implementation if the system provides one.
Wireshark/tshark may be built without Lua support. This patch adds an
error message if the user specifies the `-X lua_script` command-line
argument to a program built without Lua support, so the user is not left
wondering why their script isn't working.
Bug 17478 was caused by `wtap_rec.block` being allocated for each
packet, but not freed when it was done being used -- typically at the
end of a loop.
Rather than requiring each caller of `wtap_read()` to know to free a
member of `rec`, I added a new function `wtap_rec_reset()` for a
slightly cleaner API. Added calls to it everywhere that seemed to make
sense.
Fixes#17478
Move those checks out of #ifdef HAVE_LIBPCAP/#endif, as that option is
supported even if we don't build with pcap - it's also used when reading
one file and writing another.
Don't check for pcapng when deciding whether, when reading from an
existing capture file, we can write it with added file comments; check
whether the specified file type supports file comments and, if it
doesn't, report all file formats that do as part of the error.
Don't store the comments in a capture_options structure, because that's
available only if we're being built with capture support, and
--capture-comment can be used in TShark when reading a capture file and
writing another capture file, with no live capture taking place.
This means we don't handle that option in capture_opts_add_opt(); handle
it in the programs that support it.
Support writing multiple comments in dumpcap when capturing.
These changes also fix builds without pcap, and makes --capture-comment
work in Wireshark when a capture is started from the command line with
-k.
Update the help messages to indicate that --capture-comment adds a
capture comment, it doesn't change any comment (much less "the" comment,
as there isn't necessarily a single comment).
Update the man pages:
- not to presume that only pcapng files support file comments (even if
that's true now, it might not be true in the future);
- to note that multiple instances of --capture-comment are supported,
and that multiple comments will be written, whether capturing or reading
one file and writing another;
- clarify that Wireshark doesn't *discard* SHB comments other than the
first one, even though it only displays the first one;
Allows adding one or more capture comments to a new pcapng file when
tshark is reading from a file. Currently, tshark only allows setting one
capture comment, and that only when doing a live capture.
The use case for this feature is given in bug #15005.
I decided to allow multiple capture comments to match the same ability
in `editcap`.
To allow this change, I changed the function signature of
`process_cap_file()` so it takes a `capture_options` struct instead of
individual parameters that affect the capture.
Mostly functioning proof of concept for #14329. This work is intended to
allow Wireshark to support multiple packet comments per packet.
Uses and expands upon the `wtap_block` API in `wiretap/wtap_opttypes.h`.
It attaches a `wtap_block` structure to `wtap_rec` in place of its
current `opt_comment` and `packet_verdict` members to hold OPT_COMMENT
and OPT_PKT_VERDICT option values.
Version info is an aspect of UI implementation so move it to
a more appropriate place, such as ui/. This also helps declutter
the top-level.
A static library is appropriate to encapsulate the dependencies
as private and it is better supported by CMake than object libraries.
Also version_info.h should not be installed as a public header.
Instead of receiving the program name from GLib, pass it explicitly
to ws_log_init() instead and use that to initialize the GLib program
name.
ws_log_parse_args() will now exit the program when it encounters an
argument error if exit_failure >= 0.
A domain filter can be given in the environment variable
'WS_LOG_DOMAINS' or in a command-line options "--log-domains".
The filter is specified as a comma separated case insensitive list,
for example:
./tshark --log-domains=main,capture
Domain data type switches from an enum to a string. There is no
constaint on adding new domains, neither in code or at runtime.
The string format is arbitrary, only positive matches will produce
output.
Experience has shown that:
1. The current logging methods are not very reliable or practical.
A logging bitmask makes little sense as the user-facing interface (who
would want debug but not crtical messages for example?); it's
computer-friendly and user-unfriendly. More importantly the console
log level preference is initialized too late in the startup process
to be used for the logging subsystem and that fact raises a number
of annoying and hard-to-fix usability issues.
2. Coding around G_MESSAGES_DEBUG to comply with our log level mask
and not clobber the user's settings or not create unexpected log misses
is unworkable and generally follows the principle of most surprise.
The fact that G_MESSAGES_DEBUG="all" can leak to other programs using
GLib is also annoying.
3. The non-structured GLib logging API is very opinionated and lacks
configurability beyond replacing the log handler.
4. Windows GUI has some special code to attach to a console,
but it would be nice to abstract away the rest under a single
interface.
5. Using this logger seems to be noticeably faster.
Deprecate the console log level preference and extend our API to
implement a log handler in wsutil/wslog.h to provide easy-to-use,
flexible and dependable logging during all execution phases.
Log levels have a hierarchy, from most verbose to least verbose
(debug to error). When a given level is set everything above that
is also enabled.
The log level can be set with an environment variable or a command
line option (parsed as soon as possible but still later than the
environment). The default log level is "message".
Dissector logging is not included because it is not clear what log
domain they should use. An explosion to thousands of domains is
not desirable and putting everything in a single domain is probably
too coarse and noisy. For now I think it makes sense to let them do
their own thing using g_log_default_handler() and continue using the
G_MESSAGES_DEBUG mechanism with specific domains for each individual
dissector.
In the future a mechanism may be added to selectively enable these
domains at runtime while trying to avoid the problems introduced
by G_MESSAGES_DEBUG.
Add a generic function to write content to file. Use this on write
TLS session keys from UI and tshark, and for export objects.
Remove the now unused export_object_ui.[ch].
The tshark help and documentation has been incorrect for at least
eight years, claiming that by default all name resolutions are
performed. Fixes#11762
John Thacker