Re: [GD-Linux] Cancelling blocking recv calls on Linux

[Ryan C. G. <ic...@cl...>]

> Anybody got anything better or is this infact the correct way to use
> blocking sockets with threads?

Have you tried sending a signal to the blocked thread? When you do, recv()
should return -1 and set errno to EINTR. From there the thread can check a
global variable or something that symbolizes that the system is shutting
down, and exit cleanly if it's set.

--ryan.