Reusing sockets

nobodythere

This should be a simple question, I'm writing a program using sockets.

It's a single-threaded thing, someone connects to the server.

When they are done, the server disconnects them.

For this I thought I should use closesocket(). But obviously not. How do I disconnect someone and go back to waiting for another connection?

dazberry

When you accept() the connection it returns a handle to a new socket. You would use closesocket() on that new handle when disconnecting the client, and closesocket() on the listening handle when you want to stop listening.

D.

nobodythere

Brilliant thanks