Re: Preferred portable way to talk to a server process

Joachim Ziegler wrote, On 2008-07-22 00:47:

> 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? 

Connect to it, causing the PR_Accept to complete normally without error.