Re: [lwip-users] How to close tcp_thread

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tes_wzm wrote:
> Cause I need to close TCP task when I don't need it. I wanna use it's stack
> for other task.
> Now I write a route to release mem used by tcp task when I kill TCP task.
> 'cause not well test, it works not very well
>    
Ehrm, is that suppposed to be a question? If so, I'm not sure what the 
answer is... :-)

Simon

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>    
> > tes_wzm wrote:
> >      
> > > I use lwip+ppp to send data to my tcp server.
> > > When sth occured, I want to close tcp thread. How can I do it? If I kill
> > > this thread through OS, it will leak some memory which use to create
> > > mailbox
> > > and sem. Is't some routes to release this memory?
> > >        
> > Shutting down lwIP is not supported as it is meant to run forever. If you
> > really need this, you must implement it on your own. Depending on why you
> > need to stop the thread, you could also just make sure you don't have any
> > other tasks running (netconn/socket API) and use tcpip_callback to call a
> > custom function that doesn't return (i.e. block on a semaphore) until the
> > thread should run again.
> >
> > The reason we haven't implemented graceful shutdown of the stack is that
> > it is not needed often and has negative impact (code size, testing, etc.)
> > on the rest of the stack even when not used.
> >
> > Simon
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