Wireshark · Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] Priv sep in ethereal

["Mark Pizzolato" <ethereal-dev-20030907@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Monday, February 07, 2005 4:38 PM, Ulf Lamping wrote:
> Mark Pizzolato wrote:
[...]
> > This would completely solve privilege separation for Windows and avoid
> > the overhead of attempting to do these things in a separate process
> > and pass all data to a display process.
> Well, what you might not know, is that it's already handled that way
> when you do an "Update list of packets in Real-Time" capture! The
> problem is, depending on the user settings, we will use one of both
> possible ways, which makes the code very ugly (believe me, I'm working
> now for several days on it and it's not very funny to be honest). So a
> code cleanup here will bring us several advantages, privilege separation
> is only being one of them.

I didn't know this.  I had assumed that since ethereal was a multi threaded 
program it was merely being done in a separate thread with synchronized 
access to the data avoiding the system IPC overhead.

- Mark Pizzolato