[ECOS] Re: bsd sockets question

[Grant Edwards <grante at visi dot com>]

In gmane.os.ecos.general, you wrote:

> My application has two threads. One thread is waiting on
> receiving data on a socket using the select function, with a
> timeout of forever.
>
> The other thread calls close on that socket.
>
> I was hoping that upon calling close the select function would
> return with an error. Instead it continues to block. This
> thread works on linux and windows so I was hoping it was
> standard BSD sockets functionality.
>
> Should this be working or does eCos not support this? If it
> doesn't support it does anyone have any ideas how to implement
> it, or even where to start?

One possible work-around is to call select_with_abort() instead
of select().  Then when you want to shutdown, call close() and
then cyg_select_abort().

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