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Hello,
I have a thread which creates a socket and listens, creating new worker threads upon connections. I also have a GUI thread.
When the user closes the main window of my program, how can I stop the server thread from listen()ing? I've tried calling shutdown(g_sockServer, SD_RECEIVE) but that doesn't appear to achieve anything.
This should be achievable without the use of Asynchronous Winsock.
Is calling closesocket an option?
Other options are to temporarily put the socket in non-blocking mode, as demonstrated in this post. More hackishly, you could connect to the socket to break the accept.
Ah sorry, that wasn't the problem. It was that I wasn't breaking out of an infinite while loop if listen returns an error (which it will do if you shutdown or close the socket it's using).
Silly me! :rolleyes: