Re: RE : [lwip-users] Timers & lwip tasks (a multithread question withLwIP)

[Jonathan Larmour]

Frédéric BERNON wrote:
> But, if the main() task handle the ARP Timer (and read/write the arp
> table), and if tcpip_thread also read/write in arp table, is the
> corruption possible?

It's theoretically possible I guess: it would imply the tcpip thread didn't 
have a chance to run until the ARP timeout triggered. Improbable but possible.

> Perhaps, as you suggest, it will be better to put arp_timer
> initialization directly in the callback (to be in another file than the
> tcpip.c, but in the same thread than the tcpip_thread)...

It seems that would be the best course then. I'm not sure if there's any 
appropriate place to document this so people are aware of the issue.

Jifl
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