Re: [lwip-users] Writing a proxy server - how "non-reentrant" is lwip raw API?

[Kieran Mansley]

On 15 Jun 2011, at 07:07, Peter Montgomery wrote:

> Leon,
> 
> Can I assume that I can call "tcp_write" from the mainline (not lwIP 
> interrupt driven) code without problems?  My app receives data TCP data using 
> a ring buffer that the interrupt driven lwIP code fill, and which is read by 
> mainline code.  However, my mainline code does reply by directly calling 
> "tcp_write."  It all seems to work, but I was hoping for clarification.

I'm not 100% sure what your describing, but it sounds to me like you would then 
have the potential for two threads ("interrupts" and "mainline") active in the 
stack at the same time, which is unlikely to work reliably.

Kieran