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LemonLake

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Stopping a socket in blocking mode
« on: October 28, 2013, 02:02:18 pm »
I have a UDP socket running on a separate thread for the game server. When the host enters the quit command, it needs to stop the socket from the main thread. How do we do this?

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Re: Stopping a socket in blocking mode
« Reply #1 on: October 28, 2013, 02:36:38 pm »
SFML provides no way to stop a waiting socket. The best solution is to use a socket selector with a timeout, so that you block only for a certain duration, and can perform periodic termination checks.
Laurent Gomila - SFML developer