Thanks Nick that worked. On 20 June 2012 15:38, Nick Mathewson <ni...@freehaven.net> wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 5:32 AM, Ben Short <b...@benshort.co.uk> wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've used the echo server example to implement my own server. I call > > the event_base_dispatch in a new thread. > > > > Is there anyway to do an orderly shutdown of the event dispatcher? > > > > I've tried event_base_loopbreak which returns 0 but > the event_base_dispatch > > doesn't return. > > If you're calling event_base_loopbreak from another thread and it > isn't shutting down the main event_base_dispatch loop, it sounds like > you probably didn't enable threading before creating the event base. > > Have a look at the evthread_use_pthreads() and > evthread_use_windows_threads() functions and their documentation? > > -- > Nick > *********************************************************************** > To unsubscribe, send an e-mail to majord...@freehaven.net with > unsubscribe libevent-users in the body. >
