Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: add support for multiple open captures

[Gilbert Ramirez <gram@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 2004-02-17 at 23:28, Guy Harris wrote:
> 
> > Looks useful?
> 
> Possibly useful on desktop environments other than native Mac OS X,
> although you could run more than one instance of Ethereal - which you
> might have to if you have multiple *large* captures and a 32-bit version
> of Ethereal, as you might run out of address space.
> 
> Probably *necessary* for a native Mac OS X version, as OS X's
> application model has one process handling *all* documents of a given
> type - you don't have more than one instance of TextEdit or Preview or
> Microsoft {Word,Excel,etc.} open if you have more than one file open.
> 

It's also useful for the future in which a applications start making use
of shared-library "libethereal", and want to analyze multiple capture
files at the same time in the same process.

--gilbert