"James Duffy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
works. However, if the program that is using this function is closed
while
listening, it appears that it does not "un-bind" because when the
program is
reopened and a listen attepted to start I get a "port already in
use" error.
Only a reboot fixes this issue.
You don;t say what OS you are using but I have had this problem
on *nix boxes where the socket/port is represented by a file in /tmp
and you need to go in and kill the file manually(or by a script of
course)
before you can reopen the socket.
If its not *nix then you may have to look at a similar fix on your
OS - maybe in the registry of Windows for example.
the listen and close the connection and socket. I basically need to
get to
the close function and then stop the while loop. Thanks in advance
for any
help anyone can give. My code for the listener class follows:
I haven't read the code, sorry, but could you use a try/finally
wrapper
around your threads?
Just a thought,
--
Alan Gauld
Author of the Learn to Program web site
http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld
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