[lwip-devel] brain storming about "socket2"

[Piero 74]

Hi all

I proposed a discussion... a brain storming about new socket implementation for the future (fast and more compliance to bsd socket)

We could start to gather ideas here and create a working group...

Starting with an old email from Simon:

2008/11/25 Simon Goldschmidt <address@hidden>

> I guess it must have been discussed before. I saw some old posts about a
> socket2.c?

Hehe, socket2.c is an idea started by Frédéric and me to speed up sockets on lwIP. The main goal was to prevent sockets using netconn but directly using the raw API. My preference would be to implement normal socket functions and fast functions that resemble the netconn API advantages so that we would only have to maintain 2 APIs in the far future. But that's not going to happen soon, I guess.

Writing this, if it was me who fixed nonblocking IO, I guess I'd write sockets2 first and then implement nonblocking IO on it... ;-)