Re: [lwip-users] Thread awareness

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Jonathan Larmour wrote:
> 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.
>   

Yep, 1 defintively works or we could have only one socket-thread at a 
time, which is not the case.

Simon