DIfference between an event and a task?

[vtrix_]

Hi, what is the difference between an event and a task in FreeRTOS?

[loboris]

http://www.freertos.org/Documentation/1 ... _Guide.pdf

[f.h-f.s.]

Lets say we are talking about wifi.
Wifi has its own task and can fire off events like connected/disconnected to the system event handler(also a task) https://github.com/espressif/esp-idf/bl ... oop.c#L105
which processes these events