finding if a port is idle?

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From: qyte
Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 22:40

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Is There a way to find out if a port is idle?

Even if using windows SDK functions?

i have built a program with 4 clients and a server and i want
to syncronize them by checking if the port that they use is idle at a 
moment so that they can send data. is there a way of checking such
a thing?

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