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21 years ago

LWIP socket creation issue

LWIP socket creation issue I currently have implemented an algorithm that allows two separate devices (using the same code) to create and maintain a socket that goes something like: TaskA...
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21 years ago

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Also you have to create threads using sys_thread_new if you wish to use sockets in those threads.[/b]

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I&#39;m not sure I understand why you say this - what is the specific issue? IIRC, sys_thread_new is inappropriate for any task which terminates rather than loops forever - and the easiest way of implementing TCP/IP servers is to have the listen thread spawn new processing threads as required, which then die when the socket connection is closed.

- Roddy