Re: Thread safe?

["Lance Uyehara" <lance () verniernetworks com>]

> > Is there a thread safe version of libpcap around?
> >
> > I have pcap programs which include hostnames, i.e "dst host 
> > blahblah.com"
> > and if multiple pcap programs fail to resolve the hostname then I 
> > sometimes
> > get a core. I've looked at the source and I believe the problem is 
> > there are
> > so many static variables in libpcap that it really does not work
> > multi-threaded.
>
> The compiler *definitely* doesn't work multi-threaded; are you implying 
> that you have multiple threads doing "pcap_compile()"?

I used to, but I'm now wrapping a  mutex around the call.

Thanks for the response,
-Lance
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