On Tue, Jun 17, 2008 at 10:49:58AM -0400, Reynolds, John wrote:
I believe that only certain boost thread methods such as sleep can be interrupted.
That summarizes pretty much my misunderstanding. In essence I did not realize that only the methods outlined by Anthony are interruptable via interrupt().
What you could do is a loop that calls select with a timeout and only call a blocking accept when there is socket activity or you could loop with a non-blocking accept.
I assume that asio does this much better than what I have described.
Migrating to the non-blocking versions will probably do the trick. It seems to be a reasonable thing to leverage boost::asio for this purpose. Thanks for your help, Matthias (dhruva: I will probably resort to boost::asio although the Samba tricks are indeed quite elegant.) -- Matthias Vallentin vallentin@icsi.berkeley.edu pgp/gpg: 0x37F34C16