Re: [lwip-users] sys_mbox_new() question

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BugTraker wrote:
>    From contrib directory I can say that an argument 'size' is not used.
You mean the sys_mbox_new() implementation for unix and win32 don't use 
this argument? That's not a good thing then...
> So what it is for?
>    
First, it should be the minimum number of messages that the mbox can 
hold. Then, it may be used as an upper limit (reject packets if full / 
if that limit is reached), for example to prevent a UDP netconn 
buffering too many received UDP packets.
> Of what size should be newly created mbox?
>    
You can use the size argument as number of messages when creating the mbox.
> I guess of size 'size' but the 'size' is always 0.
>    
Size == 0 means "architecture dependent" for now, I guess.

Simon