Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] extcap slowing down start of WS
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From: Stig Bjørlykke <stig@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jan 2017 08:20:05 +0100
On Tue, Jan 3, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Anders Broman
<anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> It now seems like extcap_register_preferences is the thing taking the
> longest time when starting up Wireshark, at least on Window.

One issue is that extcap_register_preferences is called before loading
the interfaces, and therefore all extcap binaries are run twice
because of multiple calls to extcap_reload_interface_list().  One in
extcap_register_preferences() and one in fill_in_local_interfaces().
This should be improved.

Loading extcap could be done in the background after Wireshark has
started, like is done in "Refresh Interfaces".


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Stig Bjørlykke