[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] Multithreading without timers..

[Kieran Mansley]

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, David Ryan wrote:
> My question is would it be possible to setup a seperate thread which only
> job is to move through all thread timeouts and manage them using a single
> timeout structure?  Thus allowing semaphores and mbox's to only return when
> a message arrives or semaphore is posted.

Yes, I think so.  If you OS doesn't provide timer support, then you'll
have to.  It doesn't need to be particularly snazzy, just provide the
ability to wake up another thread after a certain amount of time (usually
100's of ms).

Kieran


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