Re: [lwip-users] lwIP RAW API and "deferred processing" in differentcontext

[Kieran Mansley]

On 7 Dec 2011, at 11:16, Gisle Vanem wrote:

> I have a question in this regard too. What it is the main reason we cannot 
> have BSD-sockets when NO_SYS=1? I have ported LwIP to
> djgpp/OpenWatcom on MSDOS which lack a good implementation of
> pthreads.

Our sockets implementation requires separate threads - one for the stack (the 
tcpip thread) and so another for the application.  It doesn't fundamentally 
have to be that way, but that's the way it is.

Kieran