Various code cleanup in the capture pipe stuff

[obnox/wireshark/wip.git] / capture_sync.h

diff --git a/capture_sync.h b/capture_sync.h
index aecb8f00d1c2687d4f750b49d7cd88b248ef2aa2..95d973d52ec4bc5bc63851822fd1844b66ef77b4 100644 (file)
--- a/capture_sync.h
+++ b/capture_sync.h
@@ -35,6 +35,16 @@
 #define __CAPTURE_SYNC_H__
 
 
+/*
+ * Maximum length of sync pipe message data.  Must be < 2^24, as the
+ * message length is 3 bytes.
+ * XXX - this must be large enough to handle a Really Big Filter
+ * Expression, as the error message for an incorrect filter expression
+ * is a bit larger than the filter expression.
+ */
+#define SP_MAX_MSG_LEN 4096
+
+
 /* Size of buffer to hold decimal representation of
    signed/unsigned 64-bit int */
 #define SP_DECISIZE 20