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| -rw-r--r-- | wiretap/wtap.h | 7 |
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/wiretap/wtap.h b/wiretap/wtap.h index ca58afb9c9..a55923bd2c 100644 --- a/wiretap/wtap.h +++ b/wiretap/wtap.h @@ -377,7 +377,12 @@ extern "C" { /* * We support one maximum packet size for most link-layer header types * and another for D-Bus, because the maximum packet size for D-Bus - * is 128MB, and that's a lot bigger than the 256KB that we use elsewhere. + * is 128MB, as per + * + * https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-specification.html#message-protocol-messages + * + * and that's a lot bigger than the 256KB that we use elsewhere. + * * We don't want to write out files that specify a maximum packet size of * 128MB if we don't have to, as software reading those files might * allocate a buffer much larger than necessary, wasting memory. |