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

[ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@xxxxxxxxx>]

No, I dont think we use threads for TAP any more.

It was used briefly in the early days of TAP to perform asynchronous updates
of the ..._draw() output routines   but I think it sucked so bad
performance wise so
the threading was removed/disabled.




On Tue, 08 Feb 2005 01:54:22 -0800, Guy Harris <gharris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Mark Pizzolato wrote:
> 
> > I didn't know this.  I had assumed that since ethereal was a multi
> > threaded program
> 
> Not all platforms on which Ethereal runs support threading well.  We
> make no pthread calls in Ethereal (we don't define KAXLIB_POSIX_THREADS,
> so even the exceptions package doesn't make pthread calls), nor do we
> make any Windows threading calls - with GTK+ 2.x, threading is done for
> taps *if* USE_THREADS is defined, but I don't think we define it.
> 
> Note that in some versions of BSD, threading and BPF devices - which are
> what's used for packet capture on BSD systems - don't work well together.
> 
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