threads: Waiting for event & shutdown socket

[Regan Heath]

Benjamin Schulte Wrote:
> Question 2:
> 
> I have the methods:
> 
> startServer( )
> which creates a thread that runs the server and handles everything there.
> 
> closeServer( )
> this should KILL the thread. Wherever it is at the moment.
> 
> 
> the thread itself just has a structure like (it's a one-client-server, cause I never would need more in this case):
> 
> - create socket
> - bind socket and listen
> 
> while( true )
> {
>   - accept
>   - handle messages
> }
> 
> 
> 
> And for the case, no user connected to the server it will block at "accept". When I call 'closeServer' it should close the thread, even if it's in the accept method.
> 
> Hopefully I was able to explain it a bit exactlier now. I know, I have a bad english ;)

You make the socket non-blocking and change your loop to something like:

while(true) {
  try {
    - accept
    - handle messages
  } catch(SocketAcceptException e) {
    Sleep(1);  //prevent a hard-loop when there is no socket to accept
  }
}

Regan