>>>>> "Henry," == Henry, Brad ERM <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Henry> Hello, this might be a bit of a naive question, but what libpcap functions
Henry> are usable from within a pthread? What concurrency issues do I have to worry
Henry> about? I am planning to have multiple pthreads compile different filters and
Henry> run pcap_loop on the same file, maybe over an nfs mounted drive. Is that
Henry> moderately reasonable?
I'm pretty sure that you should not compile different filters at the same
time. flex/bison/lex/yacc just aren't up to that.
I think that pcap_loop() might be okay, and pcap_offline_read() looks okay.
I can't comment about the user-mode bpf interpreter.
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