An alternative is to use none blocking IO and use poll or select in your worker thread and use another fd created with pipe(2) to signal that you are done... Or a timer fd like Sylvain suggests. Not sure if boost has some portability wrapping for this?
--Albin On Mon, Apr 13, 2020, 19:59 Sylvain Munaut <246...@gmail.com> wrote: > The m_finished thing only works if you're not using any blocking calls. > > But you're using `accept` and `recv` etc ... all calls that can block > forever until they get something. > You need to use `select` on the file descriptors while waiting for > events / data and set a timeout on that select so your code has a > periodic opportunity to check the m_finished flag. > > Cheers, > > Sylvain > >
