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Reusing sockets

nobodythere · 2008-01-06 17:44:12

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?

06-01-2008 06:44PM

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nobodythere

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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?

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#2 06-01-2008 07:22PM

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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.

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#3 06-01-2008 08:37PM

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Brilliant thanks

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