Ethereal-dev: Re: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: add support for multiple open captures

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Date: Mon, 16 Feb 2004 19:48:04 +0000
Yes, very much so!

Can you not sleep, or are you just up very, very early?

Ian
> Another thing I think many users would find useful would be "Profiles".
> 
> A Profile would be a set of
> Preferences/ColorFilters/CaptureFilters/Displayfilters
> and one should be able to select which profile to use when starting up
> Ethereal.
> 
> This would make it easier for those users that commonly work with several
> different types of captures/protocols and which
> use different Preference/filter/etc settings based on what kind of protocol
> being worked with.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Biot Olivier"
> Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2004 4:08 AM
> Subject: [Ethereal-dev] RFC: add support for multiple open captures
> 
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > As I understood from some mails on the list, some people are looking for
> > development work :) I think one big accomplishment would be to support
> > multiple open captures. This will require a rethink of the global
> variables
> > used throughout the code. (maybe we want a file declaring all global
> > variables for *any* Ethereal UI, or say the Ethereal core).
> >
> > Also, we may want to invest some time in evaluating whether we could make
> > the protocol dissectors multithreading-safe (which is not the case today
> as
> > many protocol dissectors track state with global and/or local static
> > variables). This of course *if* we require the dissection library to be
> > MT-safe (which we may want to do if we support multiple files).
> >
> > As a minimum we should describe the current status of Ethereal, and then
> > come up with a ToDo list based on this state.
> >
> > Looks useful? Looks feasible?
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Olivier
> >
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