Re: A beginner's question on thread

From: Aurelio Martin (amartin_at_wpsnetwork.com)
Date: 04/06/04 

Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 10:31:31 +0200

Timothy Wu wrote:
> I'm writing a small utility that listens for socket connections, and
> also repond to user inputs via a text menu selection.
>
> In order to respond to both the user and the incoming connections I
> figure I need to use thread.
>
> I think I would use the main thread to handle the menu and spawn a
> thread which listens on a socket.
>
> Now my question is, how do I terminate the server thread if user wants
> to exit the application? If the server just sit there and listen the
> thread would never terminate by itself. What kind of inter-thread
> communications are available and where would I find info/tutorial on that?
>
> Timothy
>

Well, when the user wants to exit, the main thread could open a socket
connection to the server thread, and send a special message telling it
to stop.

The server thread would have to distinguish between normal connections
from clients and special connections from the main thread.

Hope this helps

        Aurelio

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