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

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From: Christian Brunner <chb@xxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1999 19:36:34 +0100 (CET)
On Tue, 5 Jan 1999, 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.

Using threads seems to be a good and easy solution. Sure, you can still
use fork() and shared memory. But I don't think its really worth the
effort. I would not mind if this particular feature only works on systems
supporting threads, which should be the mayority, anyway.

Christian