Re: Killing thread

[Tim Müller <zen18864 zen co uk>]

On Sunday 21 November 2004 13:08, RAT wrote:

> I have this problem. I've got thread (server which waits for incomming
> data) and I would like to kill this thread but I don't know how :(
>
> This thread function looks like
>   (snip)
> and there's a while loop inside the server_start function. How can I
> kill this thread and any suggestion for doing this better?

this might not be the answer you're looking for, but most likely you don't 
need a thread at all to listen for incoming connections on a socket, or to do 
network stuff "in the background".

I'd recommend having a look at the GNet library API:

 http://www.gnetlibrary.org/docs/

(e.g. GServer for a TCP server, and GUdpSocket for UDP).

There's also the GNetwork library (don't have URL handy, google should find 
it), which does similar things with an GObject based API.

Cheers 
-Tim