Wireshark-dev: Re: [Wireshark-dev] extcap slowing down start of WS

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From: Pascal Quantin <pascal.quantin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2017 18:07:57 +0100
Hi Anders,

2017-01-03 17:56 GMT+01:00 Anders Broman <anders.broman@xxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Hi,

It now seems like extcap_register_preferences is the thing taking the longest time when starting up Wireshark, at least on Window.

Any one care to take a look?


Presumably this is because for each extcap utility present in the extcap folder, Wireshark will launch it to retrieve the preferences supported and their default values. I'm not sure we can easily win time here (but I will let extcap experts comment).
That's one of the reasons why I put the extcap utilities as optional in Windows installer.

Pascal.