Posted May 14, 201410 yr I have a thread that is blocked in recvfrom() call, which I want to bring down cleanly. Originally I just closed the socket from main thread and it worked fine on the mac os, but as I moved the program to linux, the recvfrom() continued blocking even after closing the thread, so I moved to using pthread_cancel() (and trying to be really, really careful not to leak anything with it :) ). But it seems to me people in general seem to be against using pthread_cancel() (and on one of the test devices I'm getting SIGABRT signal every time using the pthread_cancel), so I was wondering if there are other, better ways to bring the blocked thread down safely. Continue reading...
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