Date: Thu, 19 Jul 2001 09:02:40 -0700 From: "Brian O'Shea" <boshea@ricochet.net> To: Joerg Micheel <joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz> Cc: Andrey Simonenko <simon@comsys.ntu-kpi.kiev.ua>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: libpcap and pthreads Message-ID: <20010719090240.R489@ricochet.net> In-Reply-To: <20010719074735.H94236@cs.waikato.ac.nz>; from joerg@cs.waikato.ac.nz on Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:47:35AM %2B1200 References: <012001c10f85$08ae6b40$6d36120a@comsys.ntukpi.kiev.ua> <20010719074735.H94236@cs.waikato.ac.nz>
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You could put the code that calls pcap_dispatch() in a separate single- threaded process and communicate with your multithreaded application via an IPC mechanism such as pipes or shared memory. -brian On Thu, Jul 19, 2001 at 07:47:35AM +1200, Joerg Micheel wrote: > Privjet Andrey, > > On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 04:27:39PM +0400, Andrey Simonenko wrote: > > Is it possible to use libpcap with pthreads? > > (I want to use just pcap_dispatch() function) > > I very much doubt so. It's not possible to use it in any kind of > multithreaded applications, even with select() scenarios. They > implement the Highlander principle - there can be only one (pcap). > Sad. > -- Brian O'Shea <boshea@ricochet.net> To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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