Ethereal-dev: Re: [ethereal-dev] Viewing packets while capturing...

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From: Lyle Bickley <lpb@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 05 Jan 1999 08:34:52 -0800
Stefan `Sec` Zehl wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Jan 05, 1999 at 10:15:19PM +1100, Peter Hawkins wrote:
> > I noticed that top on your wishlist is to be able to view packets while
> > capturing. You might wish to do it similarly to the way I did it in my
> > sniffer, using threads
> 
> I do think that if you start using threads, ethereal will become quite a
> bit less portable, as not all systems support threads, yet.

Linux, NT (burp..) and virtually all UNIX systems have threads natively
or via publicly available packages.  What platforms are you concerned
about?

Lyle
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