Re: Is pcap thread-safe?

[Darren Reed <darrenr () reed wattle id au>]

In some email I received from Andreas Rieke, sie wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> is pcap really thread-safe, especially under linux? Did anybody really 
> try to run it on multiple interfaces, one per thread?

The only part that wasn't thread safe (last time I checked)
was pcap_compile().  And yes, I've used pcap_dispatch() in
a multi-threaded linux app successfully.

Darren
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