James Duffy wrote:
I have a problem w/ a file transfer receiver. They way it works is it binds a port for incoming transfer , when the file transfer is complete. It closes the connection and the socket, then loops back and restarts the bind and listen. I have it set so that the socket is reuseable, which is why this 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. This code is imported into a main GUI script. We have it set to execute some cleanup functions on exit, I need a function that can dig down to the thread the listener is running in, stop the listen and close the connection and socket. I basically need to get to the close function and then stop the while loop.
The usual way to terminate a thread from another thread is to set a flag that the running thread checks periodically. Here is an example:
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