[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] some questions

[Kieran Mansley]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Recker, John wrote:
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> 2) what is the purpose of the netconn_delete(conn)
> as the last line of the lwip_socket() function?
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This line is only executed if the lwip_socket() function couldn't find a
location in the sockets[] array to store the new socket and allow it to
keep track of it in future.  (ie. It has reached the maximum number
(NUM_SOCKETS) of sockets allowed).  It therefore deletes the netconn that
it had created so as not to leak memory, and returns an error.

Kieran

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