how to send a signal to a thread

Hello all,
Iam working on an application which requires sending request over n/w to server and receiving responses from the server. I have a seperate user defined function in which i create a socket and all other stuff(bind , send to ,recvfrom), the socket i have created is a datagram , nonblocking socket i also have created a thread which will be pointing to a function which runs an infinite loop and keeps on doing the select() function on the socket to read data from the server if any received in the socket. I also have another user defined function in which i close the socket. My requirement is that when the control enters this function in which i close the socket i need to signal the function which is being pointed by the thread so that it can exit the infinite loop. I tried a google but could not find any solution. If anyone has worked on these lines or have any idea abt how this cud be done i request ur goodselves to help me in this problem


Regards,
Suresh stephen

In general, I'd suggest setting a global variable.

In this case, why not use a pipe to signal the thread?

Since you're already blocking on "select()" (a good choice, rather than polling, BTW!), you might want to open a dummy file (e.g. a pipe), add that pipe to your "select()" FD_SET list, and then have the thread that closes the socket "signal" the reader thread by writing to the pipe. Voila!

PS:
I don't think there's any way to use a true "signal" (e.g. SIGUSER) here...

hello paulsm4,
Thanks very much for ur reply It seems to be a gr8 idea , i will try it and see if it works.

Regards,
S.SureshStephen