Subj : Re: pthreads: cancelling thread blocked on berkeley socket accept()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk
Date : Mon Sep 19 2005 07:32 pm

David Hopwood <david.nospam.hopwood@blueyonder.co.uk> writes:

> You should set a shared 'shouldExit' flag and close() the socket
> from the main thread. The listening thread will get an error from
> the accept(), and can then exit when it sees that 'shouldExit' is
> set.

I suppose there must be additional memory synchronization because
accept + close don't synchronize memory, right?

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