Re: [lwip-users] Thread awareness

[Jonathan Larmour]

Kieran Mansley wrote:
>>
>> 1. Can I, for instance, have multiple threads managing their own sockets?
>> i.e. can I do a http server as a thread, creating/using/closing while I
>> have another thread doing similar stuff on another port?
>>
>> 2. I guess that each socket in it self is not threadsafe; i.e. I cannot
>> create a listen thread, and another writing thread using the same socket.
>> ( this would surprise me, but I thought I should ask ;-) )
> 
> 2 definitely won't work.  1 might work.  Safest would be to direct all
> socket access through a single thread.

I think if 1 didn't work we'd call that a bug which needs to be fixed.

Jifl
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