On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 12:53 AM [email protected] <[email protected]> wrote:

> Am 18.01.2019 um 23:19 schrieb Ben Schwartz:
> > Hi lwIP,
> >
> > According to a message from a long time ago [1], there's no way to
> > perform a graceful shutdown of an lwIP instance.  Is that still true?
>
> Yes, that's still true.
>
> However, by now I have changed my mind. There are more and more people
> using lwIP outside its original target - small microcontrollers. In
> small microcontrollers, it made sense to not support shutdown. However,
> I think by now it might be worth a try to implement such a shutdown, as
> long as it doesn't grow size for small microcontroller usage.
>

Cool, thanks for considering this.  I've opened an issue to track this
feature: https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/index.php?55598


>
> Regards,
> Simon
>
> > For context, I'm currently working with an executable that, on startup,
> > calls lwip_init(), netif_set_up(), netif_set_link_up(),
> > netif_set_default(), tcp_bind_to_netif(), tcp_bind_netif(),
> > tcp_listen(), and tcp_accept().  On completion, the process terminates
> > without unwinding any of these steps.  I'm trying to convert this
> > executable into a library that could be started, stopped, and started
> again.
> >
> > Is there a recommended pattern for stopping and restarting lwIP?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ben Schwartz
> >
> > [1]
> http://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/lwip-users/2010-03/msg00210.html
>
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