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Subject: Re: CS551: Final Project : recv()
Date: Sun, 05 Oct 2008 20:31:00 -0700
From: Bill Cheng <william@bourbon.usc.edu>

Someone wrote:

  > We had a question,
  > 
  > Assume that a thread is in recv() state (hence blocked until somebody writes
  > into its receive buffer) , is there any way in which we can break out of
  > this recv() block without anybody writing into the receive buffer ?

You should use select() to make sure that there is data
to be read before you call recv().  You should use a
timeout value of, say 100ms, with select().
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Bill Cheng // bill.cheng@usc.edu <URL:http://merlot.usc.edu/william/usc/>