Wireshark · Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] use tshark as part of one application

[Jeff Morriss <jeff.morriss.ws@xxxxxxxxx>]

Eloy Paris wrote:
> 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...

Yes, it is big.  See:

http://wiki.wireshark.org/Development/multithreading

for more info.