Re: [lwip-devel] AF_UNIX support

[Mike Pontillo]

On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 3:36 PM, Sylvain Rochet <address@hidden> wrote:

Among them, there is no need for IPC between processes, since they
cannot afford the memory and storage cost of running other than threads.

   On the other hand, I think this would be useful for larger environments that LWIP is being used in.

   Often times, if one is working with a socket-based server, one wants to select() on any active network sockets, but also include the FD of a control socket or pipe, so that another task could inject commands in a thread-safe (task-safe) manner.

   For example, on Linux one might use pipe() or socketpair() to create a control channel. It would be nice if LWIP supported this.

Regards,

Mike