[lwip-users] Re: [lwip] Non-empty mailbox released

[Martin Glunz]

Martin Glunz wrote:
> 
> I found this here:
> 
> http://www.sics.se/mailing-lists/lwip.html/msg00160.html
> 
> Does anybody know if this has been fixed?
> I'm experiencing a similar problem when testing my lwip port:
> 
> I'm running a tcp echo server (port 7) on lwip, connect
> from a linux box with telnet or netcat, continously
> sending and receiving data like this here:
> 
> address@hidden:~ > yes jsfadklhasdfdfs |netcat test510 7
> 
> When I interrupt netcat (Ctrl-C) a non-empty mailbox is released.
> 
> I'm testing with the current CVS Sources.
> 

As I found out now, the leftover Message is posted from
err_tcp() in api_msg.c to conn->mbox. This is a NULL
message, so I believe (hope) there's no danger of a memory
leak.

Martin Glunz
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