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C is notoriously difficult to bind from other languages without additional metadata. The C ABI does not include enums and macros that are an essential component of the API. To make Wireshark instrospectable and more binding friendly include an introspection API to export enums and integer macros. To avoid the tedious need to manually keep the code up to date it uses the excellent pyclibrary python package to automatically parse C headers and extract this data. This is not a process that should be done automatically during the build. This could be used for example to replace most of the wslua make-init-lua.pl perl script, which tries to do the same thing using regular expressions. Besides the downside of using Perl using regular expressions is inferior to pyclibrary in 2 ways: 1) pyclibrary understands most of C99 grammar so it is much more powerful; 2) pyclibrary has a specific API to extract "values" (enums and constants) automagically. We just need to take care to use only integer values, for our purposes. |
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README.Debian.security
Handling security fixes in source package wireshark Wireshark is a network protocol analyzer and it's ability to perform deep packet inspection in live traffic may encourage users to use Wireshark/Tshark as a part of an intrusion detection or traffic monitoring system. In that case, please note that Wireshark/Tshark may contain remotely triggerable bugs causing crashes or allowing code injection. Bugs allowing code injection will be fixed in regular Debian Security Advisories, but fixes for pure crash bugs may be delayed. -- Balint Reczey <balint@balintreczey.hu> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 15:38:33 +0200