Re: breaking blocking socket

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From: mr_organic
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 13:51

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"Adam" <wadi@poczta.onet.pl> wrote in
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> Is it possible to break blocking socket ?
> For instance: while using socket in thread - function: recvfrom(),  I
> will close this socket from main thread. Is it possible ?
> thanks
> 

The "clean" way to do it is to set a timeout value on the socket. The less-
clean way is to terminate the thread in which you launched the blocking 
thread (you did launch it in it's own thread, right?).

mr_organic

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