Re: Corrupt files

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

On Jun 25, 2004, at 4:34 PM, Xavier Brouckaert wrote:

> Could it happen because there are several applications using libpcap 
> at the same time ?

Not if they're writing to different files.  There's no data that would 
be shared by all libpcap-using processes on a given machine.

If multiple applications, or multiple threads in a given application, 
are writing to the same file, yes, it could easily happen.

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