Re: changing filter on running capture

[Guy Harris <guy () alum mit edu>]

On Fri, Nov 21, 2003 at 09:54:59AM +0100, Stephan Knabe wrote:
> From another thread, I want to change the filter, replacing the one used
> by the capture.

I'm not certain that you can do that safely; libpcap's code isn't
thread-safe, and I think that, when somebody last asked about this, I
found some places where you could have a problem if you change a capture
filter in one thread while you're capturing in another.

That discussion is probably somewhere in the tcpdump-workers archives.
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