* Low-level synchronization pipe routines for use by Wireshark/TShark
* and dumpcap
*
- * $Id$
- *
* Wireshark - Network traffic analyzer
* By Gerald Combs <gerald@wireshark.org>
* Copyright 1998 Gerald Combs
/** @file
- *
+ *
* Low-level sync pipe interfaces.
*/
* Expression, as the error message for an incorrect filter expression
* is a bit larger than the filter expression.
*/
-#define SP_MAX_MSG_LEN 4096
+#define SP_MAX_MSG_LEN 4096
/* Size of buffer to hold decimal representation of
/*
* Indications sent out on the sync pipe (from child to parent).
+ * We might want to switch to something like Thrift
+ * (http://thrift.apache.org/) or Protocol Buffers
+ * (http://code.google.com/p/protobuf-c/) if we ever need to use more
+ * complex messages.
*/
#define SP_FILE 'F' /* the name of the recently opened file */
#define SP_ERROR_MSG 'E' /* error message */
extern ssize_t
pipe_write_header(int pipe_fd, char indicator, int length);
-/* write a message to the recipient pipe in the standard format
- (3 digit message length (excluding length and indicator field),
+/* write a message to the recipient pipe in the standard format
+ (3 digit message length (excluding length and indicator field),
1 byte message indicator and the rest is the message).
If msg is NULL, the message has only a length and indicator. */
extern void
pipe_write_block(int pipe_fd, char indicator, const char *msg);
/** the child encountered an error, notify the parent */
-extern void
+extern void
sync_pipe_errmsg_to_parent(int pipe_fd, const char *error_msg,
const char *secondary_error_msg);
#endif
#endif /* sync_pipe.h */
+
+/*
+ * Editor modelines - http://www.wireshark.org/tools/modelines.html
+ *
+ * Local variables:
+ * c-basic-offset: 4
+ * tab-width: 8
+ * indent-tabs-mode: nil
+ * End:
+ *
+ * vi: set shiftwidth=4 tabstop=8 expandtab:
+ * :indentSize=4:tabSize=8:noTabs=true:
+ */