Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] [Wireshark-commits] rev 39775: /trunk/ /trunk/: CMakeLists.txt dumpcap.c

[Guy Harris <guy@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 9, 2011, at 1:09 PM, Bill Meier wrote:

> Any reason not to remove all the 'if (use_threads)' tests (just leaving the threads branches of the code) ??

I think the threading code was introduced by Michael Tuexen and Irene Rüngeler - Michael?  It appears that capturing on multiple interfaces simultaneously requires threads, so the question is whether there's any disadvantage to using a capture thread if you're only capturing on one interface.