Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] Clean up the "--enable-threads" configure option?
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From: Gerald Combs <gerald@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:59:42 -0800
Anders Broman wrote:
> Hi,
> Reading up on treads I came across the following
> _http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-users/200906/msg00209.html_
>  
> And _http://www.wireshark.org/lists/wireshark-dev/200611/msg00199.html_
>>we used to have 2 threads in the old ethereal for a short period. one
> thread for the main application and a second thread that was dedicated
> to only
>>update/redraw teh statistics taps once every few seconds. this did
> cause a quite significant degradation in performance/speed of ethereal
> which is why >it was removed :-(
>  
> However it looks like dumpcap uses threads on Windows would it be
> beneficial for dumpcap to use threads on other systems as well?
> Anyway it sounds like the tread code in Main.c should be removed -
> right? Then threads could be enabled by default(?)

Dumpcap uses threads on Windows to get around the inability to use
select/WaitForSingleObject on a pipe. It might be beneficial to have
common code on other systems.