Lua pinfo.cols.protocol not holding value in postdissector

This issue was migrated from bug 6020 in our old bug tracker.

Original bug information:

Reporter: Brian Douglass
Status: RESOLVED FIXED
Product: Wireshark
Component: GTK+ UI
OS: Windows 7
Platform: x86-64
Version: 1.6.0

Attachments:

bug6020.patch: Patch to make Lua fields populated
bug6020b.patch: Updated patch with fixed diff line numbers
bug-6020.lua: Lua postdissector to demo the bug
bug-6020.lua: Lua postdissector to demo the bug
g2sTrivial.lua: cut down version of my g2s.lua post dissector with minimal function
WSCAP_2011-05-18_165000.zip: A packet capture containing G2S messages
trivialproto2.lua: Extended version of trivialproto where IF statements always true

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