Subj : Re: pthreads: cancelling thread blocked on berkeley socket accept()
To   : comp.programming.threads
From : David Schwartz
Date : Tue Sep 20 2005 10:06 pm


"Missaka Wijekoon" <mwijekoon@RemoveThis.villageEDOCS.com> wrote in message 
news:R14Ye.44163$ct5.32765@fed1read04...

> You could poll() the socket with a timeout before calling accept.  If you 
> get a POLLIN event, then accept().  If you get a timeout on the poll, 
> check the shutdown flag and if set, gracefully exit.


    That should be safe provided two things:

    1) You set the socket non-blocking.

    2) You let the poll/accept thread close the socket. (Or the main thread 
after it joins the poll/accept thread.)

    DS

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