A beginner's question on thread

[Timothy Wu]

Aurelio Martin wrote:

> Well, when the user wants to exit, the main thread could open a socket 
> connection to the server thread, and send a special message telling it 
> to stop.
> 
> The server thread would have to distinguish between normal connections 
> from clients and special connections from the main thread.
> 
> Hope this helps
> 
>     Aurelio

I've thought about doing that and I thought that was more of a hack.
Is it the proper way to handle it?

Timothy