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Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clean up the "--enable-threads" configure option?

From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 15:35:21 -0800
Anders Broman wrote:
> Michael Tüxen skrev 2010-11-23 21:10:
>> dumpcap will use threads to support capturing on multiple interfaces
>> simultaneously. I'll implement it soon, Irene is already working on
>> changing the GUI to support it...
>>
>> Best regards
>> Michael
> Which leaves the code in main.c (tap stuff) - should that be removed?

Probably. Enabling threads would result in taps working differently (and
worse, according to Ronnnie's email) on non-Windows platforms.