A beginner's question on thread

[Aurelio Martin]

Timothy Wu wrote:
> I'm writing a small utility that listens for socket connections, and 
> also repond to user inputs via a text menu selection.
> 
> In order to respond to both the user and the incoming connections I 
> figure I need to use thread.
> 
> I think I would use the main thread to handle the menu and spawn a 
> thread which listens on a socket.
> 
> Now my question is, how do I terminate the server thread if user wants 
> to exit the application? If the server just sit there and listen the 
> thread would never terminate by itself. What kind of inter-thread 
> communications are available and where would I find info/tutorial on that?
> 
> Timothy
> 

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