Angus Robertson - Magenta Systems Ltd wrote: >>> Waiting for all sockets to close cleanly may be necessary before >>> terminating an application, to ensure continuously streamed data >>> is not lost. >> >> I do not see a reason why one must wait in a loop processing >> messages with calls to sleep()in order to achieve that, that's >> often a hint to bad design and should be avoided. > > I would not use sleep in such a loop, but if Windows is trying to > close a service to reboot, you do need to loop for a few seconds > while blocking the close down request.
Indeed that would be a case. However a call to ShutDown(SD_BOTH) at that moment would likely raise a socket error at once if any subsequent attempt is made to send or receive something. -- Arno Garrels -- To unsubscribe or change your settings for TWSocket mailing list please goto http://lists.elists.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/twsocket Visit our website at http://www.overbyte.be
