Re: Preferred portable way to talk to a server process

Wan-Teh Chang wrote:
 >
 > This is an area that NSPR doesn't address.  You'll need to
 > use platform-specific ways to do that.  It is true that Unix
 > signals are not supported on Windows.

Thank you for your quick and disillusioning answer. :-)

But anyway, how do I do it then? This means that my otherwise clean NSPR 
code will be polluted with #ifdef's?

A second question: A typical server process blocks in a PR_Accept(), 
waiting for clients to connect.

The reference page says: "PR_Accept blocks the calling thread until 
either a new connection is successfully accepted or an error occurs."
Now suppose that I want to shutdown the server process. How can I do 
that? How can I make the process unblock and test a Boolean shutdown 
variable? (Even with using signal, this would not not work according to 
the text cited above.)

BTW, what's the definite reference for NSPR (yes, I am a newbie):

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/

or

http://developer.mozilla.org/en/docs/NSPR_API_Reference (the wiki)

Gretings and thanks,
Joachim