Re: [Boost-users] Interrupting Threads with boost::thread::interrupt()

From: Matthias Vallentin (vallentin_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-18 02:55:08

On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Reynolds, John wrote:
> I believe that only certain boost thread methods such as sleep can be
> interrupted. 

That summarizes pretty much my misunderstanding. In essence I did not
realize that only the methods outlined by Anthony are interruptable via
interrupt(). 

> What you could do is a loop that calls select with a
> timeout and only call a blocking accept when there is socket activity
> or you could loop with a non-blocking accept.

> I assume that asio does this much better than what I have described.

Migrating to the non-blocking versions will probably do the trick. It
seems to be a reasonable thing to leverage boost::asio for this purpose.

Thanks for your help,

   Matthias

(dhruva: I will probably resort to boost::asio although the Samba tricks
are indeed quite elegant.)
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Matthias Vallentin
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