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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
Subject: Re: Ada Thread Termination
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On Sat, 2 Feb 2008 11:41:55 -0800 (PST), shaunpatterson@gmail.com wrote:

> Listen_For_Message is actually a call to a blocking socket read, so
> the call may not finish if nothing else comes through the socket. I'm
> not sure how to structure this thread so it can be terminated on
> demand.
> 
> Any ideas?

Close the socket from outside, that would cause listening to end with a
"socket closed" error, so the listener task could quit.

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