[Winpcap-users] Filters in a multi-threading application

Marcel van Lieshout marcel at hmcs.nl
Sat May 20 19:30:09 GMT 2006


Perhaps, but the application is already pretty complex. I really want to go 
the safe way:
What would be the best?
- two handles and an appropiate filter for the send-only handle
- one handle, synchronised by criticalsection calls.


Guy Harris wrote:
> Marcel van Lieshout wrote:
>> I don't know. I decided not to go that way after reading this on
>> this list a
>> few weeks ago:
>>
>> =snip=================
>>>> 1. Can i access the same descriptor in different thread without
>>>> synchronization?
>>>
>>> Accessing any kind of handle or descriptor from different threads
>>> without solid synchronization is evil.
>> =/snip=================
>
> Sending in one thread and receiving in another thread might be an
> exception to that.
>
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