May be socketoption so_linger would be a solutuion. http://www.developerweb.net/forum/archive/index.php/t-2982.html
Rainer Am Freitag, 29. Mai 2009 18:43 schrieb Luca Olivetti: > I have a thread managing a socket (using synapse but I don't think that > it matters, just keep in mind that each operation is blocking). > Inside the thread, I try to connect, send and read in a loop. > If I see an error, I just exit the loop and, if > the thread is terminated, that's it, otherwise I try a new connection > and so on and so forth. > In the thread destructor (called in the context of the main thread), > apart from terminate, I use the synapse AbortSocket call (which in turn > calls CloseSocket, which in turn calls fpClose under linux), which > supposedly terminates any pending call on the socket in the thread, so > it can terminate immediately. > It works fine under windows (i.e the socket calls terminate immediately > inside the thread), but under Linux it doesn't until the timeout > expires, and that's not very convenient, especially if I'm trying to > quickly close the program and I have many of those threads running. > Is there a way to make the pending call exit immediately? > > Bye _______________________________________________ fpc-pascal maillist - fpc-pascal@lists.freepascal.org http://lists.freepascal.org/mailman/listinfo/fpc-pascal
