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Re: [Wireshark-dev] use tshark as part of one application
From: Eloy Paris <peloy_at_nospam>Date: Thu Mar 11 2010 - 22:42:28 GMT
To: Developer support list for Wireshark <wireshark-dev@wireshark.org>
Hi Jeff,
On 03/11/2010 05:19 PM, Jeff Morriss wrote:
[...]
> libwireshark is NOT thread safe. If you're using multiple threads,
> you'd need one lock to prevent more than one thread from entering
> libwireshark simultaneously.
Indeed. I personally found that out while integrating libwireshark into
netexpect. For one particular feature netexpect needs to dissect two
packet simultaneously (or keep two dissection results in memory at the
same time) so I ended up using a very ugly hack, which I still have had
a chance to fix in a better way.
Are there any plans, or at least a desire, to make it thread-safe at
some point in the future? Is there any README or wiki page that gives at
least a big picture overview of what such a project would entail? I
understand it's a big undertaking...
Cheers,
Eloy Paris.-
netexpect.org
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