Hi, I am new to lib event so please forgive me if this is a noob question. I ran into a problem usinglib event and wonder if anyone can help
My question I hope is very simple: - I am trying to create a simple multi-threaded HTTP server. I create and bind a non-blocking listening socket on port 8080, then for each thread I want to create to process HTTP requests I call the following event_base_new() evhttp_new() evhttp_accept_socket_with_handle() evhttp_set_gencb() pthread_create(my_http_worker_thread_fn, base); Then in the thread function for each worker thread I call event_base_dispatch((struct event_base*)arg); Everything works as expected and I can process HTTP requests. The problem I am having is shutting down cleanly. After my main thread creates the worker threads I wait for a return key press on getchar() so I can press return to shutdown, after which I call event_base_loopbreak() on each event base I created, then I call pthread_join() from my main thread on each worker thread handle to wait for all threads to complete. The problem is, after calling event_base_loopbreak() I am expecting event_base_dispatch() to return but it never does, looking at the call stack for each thread they all appear to be waiting for an event. So I end up stuck waiting for threads to end which never do. I am on OS X Can anyone tell me what I am doing wrong/should be doing? Any help would be very much appreciated. Thanks, Gerry Sweeney http://gerrysweeney.com/
