Re: Multithread safety

Mike Gleason Jr Couturier wrote:
> I have another question concerning this topic...
> (multithread & blocking sockets)
>
> Is it considered an acceptable practice to create a
> second thread that do blocking reads (recv) and quits
> only if it detects a socket error (like when the main thread
> closes the socket).

Not really. You should investigate various asynchronous I/O mechanisms
instead.

> Is it a bad thing to do ?

Usualy yes. I wouldn't do it in production code.


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