Re: dlt_choice table in pcap.c

[Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net>]

On Dec 4, 2025, at 12:34 PM, Guy Harris <gharris () sonic net> wrote:

> Not using g_ascii_strcasecmp() in Wireshark caused a *crashing bug* in Wireshark in a Turkish locale (it was in code 
> that was parsing some text configuration file; the problem was that a keyword was being compared with strcasecmp(), 
> and the keyword contained the Roman-alphabet "i", and the match failed in a Turkish locale when case-insensitivity 
> was required, and that was compounded by a null pointer being returned in the mismatch case and the validity of the 
> pointer *not* being checked).
>
> After fixing both 1) the case-insensitive comparison and 2) the lack of a null-pointer check, I've remembered that 
> quirk.

The full fun story is at https://gitlab.com/wireshark/wireshark/-/issues/2010
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