Add the program version to more commonly-used commands. We were labeling
output with "Output" and "Example output". Use "Example output"
everywhere. Other miscellaneous updates.
Remove pod2adoc.py since it's no longer needed. Add versions to the
Wireshark, TShark, and Dumpcap man pages. Use definition lists in the
TShark glossary descriptions. Other minor fixes.
Convert doc/*.pod to Asciidoctor. This:
* Means we use the same markup for our man pages, the guides, and
release notes.
* Lets us add versions to our man pages.
* Gives us more formatting options, e.g. AsciiDoc supports `commands`,
nested lists and makes it easy to include version information. The
manpage backend doesn't seem to support tables very well,
unfortunately.
Convert our CMake configuration to produce *roff and html man pages
using Asciidoctor. Add a "manarg" block macro which makes our synopses
wrap correctly.
Similar to the release notes, guides, and FAQ, if Asciidoctor isn't
found the man pages won't be generated or installed.
Move Asciidoctor to the list of package build dependencies in various
places.
This commit includes the conversion script (pod2adoc.py), which will be
removed later.
Line count sanity check:
Man page .pod .adoc
androiddump 260 280
asn2deb 93 105
capinfos 401 471
captype 54 55
ciscodump 241 269
dftest 42 42
dpauxmon 153 169
dumpcap 464 534
editcap 528 583
etwdump 136 156
extcap 157 181
idl2deb 91 103
idl2wrs 120 100
mergecap 206 207
mmdbresolve 75 75
randpkt 107 111
randpktdump 158 184
rawshark 558 610
reordercap 76 78
sdjournal 145 157
sshdump 272 302
text2pcap 274 312
tshark 2135 2360
udpdump 133 151
wireshark-filter 486 479
wireshark 2967 3420
Provide Internet Archive links for dead URLs.
Update to note that PSML output is supported by tshark and not
a future feature (true since 17 years ago, when it was still tethereal).
Note "fake-field-wrapper" protocol for top level fields (including data,
which is converted from a protocol to a field for PDML).
Note "_ws.expert" protocol replaced by field, as with data.
Note that some dissectors place subdissected protocols in subtrees
instead of at the top level, and that this is _not_ changed, violating
the PDML spec.
Fix#10588.
This is used to select ringbuffer savefile name template. Choose one of two
savefile name templates:
If value is 1, make running file number part before start time part; this is
the original and default behaviour (e.g. log_00001_20210828164426.pcap).
If value is greater than 1, make start time part before running number part
(e.g. log_20210828164426_00001.pcap).
The latter makes alphabetical sortig order equal to creation time order, and
keeps related multiple file sets in same directory close to each other (e.g.
while browsing in wireshark "Open file" dialog).
Signed-off-by: Juha Takala <juha.takala+rauta@iki.fi>
- Make sure reassembly requests & errors are properly propagated from
any point in the PDU, no matter how many sub-structure levels.
- Handle the sub-dissection methods as well:
- Ensure the sub-dissection methods handle errors from previous calls.
- Reduce the error handling needed in sub-dissector implementations.
- Add missing sub-dissection methods for list, set, and map.
- Add the handling of sub-structure.
- Handle Compact protocol in addition to the existing binary protocol.
- Include and improve MR !3171
- Handle reassembly the same way as for binary protocol.
- Handle sub-dissection with the same functions.
=> Sub-dissectors only depend on .thrift files.
Additional changes:
- Use of constants instead of hard-coded values.
- Removed U64 support (never supported by thrift code generator, only
referenced in the C++ thrift library header but not supported in reality.
- Removed references to UTF-8 and UTF-16 string for the same reason.
- Replaced references to UTF-7 string with just string (same reason).
- Replaced references to byte with i8 as the documentation explicitly
states that byte is a compatibility name.
Documentation reference:
- https://thrift.apache.org/developers
- https://thrift.apache.org/docs/idl.html
- https://github.com/apache/thrift/blob/master/doc/specs/thrift-compact-protocol.md
- https://erikvanoosten.github.io/thrift-missing-specification/
- https://diwakergupta.github.io/thrift-missing-guide/Closes#16244
Additional changes:
- Add authors and improve consistency
- Fix typo and clarify documentation
The editcap documentation still refers to the pre 1.2.1 behavior
of determining output file names when splitting based on either
packet counts or time intervals. (See commit a8eb860103) Update
it to reflect the current behavior.
Fix a number of instances where the captype man page refers to
capinfos instead of captype. (Copy and paste-o.) Also add captype
to the SEE ALSO section of the capinfos man page.
This header was installed incorrectly to epan/wmem_scopes.h.
Instead of creating additional installation rules for a single
header in a subfolder (kept for backward compatibility) just
rename the standard "epan/wmem/wmem.h" include to
"epan/wmem_scopes.h" and fix the documentation.
Now the header is installed *correctly* to epan/wmem_scopes.h.
Automated find/replace of wmem_packet_scope() with pinfo->pool in all
files where it didn't cause a build failure.
I also tweaked a few of the docs which got caught up.
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.
This functionality has been added in d2a660d8, where its limitations
are described.
Improvements:
* the Substream index menu now properly filters for available stream numbers;
* Follow Stream selects the first stream in the current packet
Known issue (which is still there): if a packet contains multiple QUIC
streams, then we will show data also from streams other than the selected
one (see #16093)
Note that there is no way to follow a QUIC connection.
Close#17453
Explain, in detail, exactly what it's trying to do and, for each of the
three commands in the example, what each step does, as well as
explaining what the calculation using the end time of one capture and
start time of another capture is doing.
(Where did this example come from? What is the real-world goal of this
exercise? And why is it an example in which all the fancy stuff is done
in commands *other* than mergecap?)
The AUTHORS section of wireshark(1) is about half the content of the man
page. While it's important to acknowledge the people who have
contributed to the project, the goal of the man page is to tell people
how to use Wireshark.
Replace the list of authors with text that acknowledges their
contributions along with pointers to the AUTHORS file and the list on
the main web site.
The tshark help and documentation has been incorrect for at least
eight years, claiming that by default all name resolutions are
performed. Fixes#11762
Modify YAML output format so it includes information about peers and
absolute timestamps for each packet.
This also adds yaml output to tshark: -z follow,tcp,yaml,X
Currently our build generates very many warnings if
G_DISABLE_ASSERT is defined.
Add ws_assert() and ws_assert_not_reached() to incrementally
replace existing assertions and then disable them using
WS_DISABLE_ASSERT.
Assertions are disabled with CMake build type Release.
By default the build type is RelWithDebInfo so the current
behaviour of enabling assertions by default is (for now) preserved.
Add some notes to README.Developer.
Wireshark loads HTML files as resources from "/usr/share/wireshark"
on Unix-like systems and from the $build/run directory when run that
way. There are also other locations specific to other platforms and
packaging solutions and multi-config builds.
HTML manuals are installed both to "/usr/share/wireshark" and
"/usr/share/doc/wireshark" for Unix-like systems. For now install them
only to the former to avoid unnecessary clutter and duplication. The
manuals can be consulted using 'man' or launched in HTML format from
Wireshark's help menu (or found in $pkgdatadir instead of $docdir).
Eventually we may want to simplify that maze of locations for HTML
resources and have Wireshark load the manuals from $docdir instead
on Unix, and do the right thing for the other platforms, etc.
Add --ifname and --ifdescr to allow the name and description for an
interface or pipe to be set; this overrides the specified name or
reported description for an interface, and overrides the pipe path name
and provides a description for a pipe.
Provide those arguments when capturing from an extcap program.
This is mainly for extcaps, so you have something more meaningful than
some random path name as the interface name and something descriptive
for the description.
Allow "-U ?" as well as an empty argument; an empty argument is a bit
counterintuitive.
Simplify the introductory line of output - asking for a list of taps
isn't an error in which the user failed to supply a tap name, it's a
case where the user suplied a request for a list of tap names.
Just use fprintf() to print the list, and indent the elements of the
list, as we do with other lists of valid arguments.
List the valid arguments if the user specified an invalid argument as
well.
Martin Mathieson