On Tue, 24 Nov 2009, centrio_at_gmail.com wrote:

> I am calling select with 1 second timeout since I need to quite application
> on user request. I cannot have a large timeout since then user has to wait
> for that much time to quit. Basically I have main thread for UI and this
> select is in another thread. if I have a timeout of 1 min and the select
> call is waiting, then if user requests to quit the application then it
> hangs.

The traditional way of solving that without that kind of loop is to have the
select() also wait for a pipe to get readable, and then you write to the pipe
from the UI thread when you want to kill the transfer thread.

That way you won't have a 1 or 60 second delay.

> So I wanted to know if its same to have 1min timeout and to have 1sec
> timeout for 60 times.

Sure you can.

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  / daniel.haxx.se
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