Re: End thread waiting on ConnectNamedPipe?

From:
"Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@earthlink.net>
Newsgroups:
microsoft.public.vc.language
Date:
Wed, 27 Jan 2010 07:08:57 -0800
Message-ID:
<ueJmnK2nKHA.6084@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl>
Use overlapped mode.

"Vincent Fatica" <vince@blackholespam.net> wrote in message
news:4b5fb7ab$1@news.vefatica.net...

I have a thread doing this.

DWORD WINAPI ReadPipeThread(LPVOID lpv)
{
   WCHAR Buffer[32768];//, szResult[32];
DWORD dwRead, dwWritten;

while ( bListen )
{
if ( ConnectNamedPipe(hPipe, NULL) ) // blocks
{
if ( ReadFile(hPipe, Buffer, 32768 * sizeof(WCHAR),
&dwRead, NULL) && dwRead )
...

If from another thread I call

VOID ShutDownServer(VOID)
{
Printf(L"Stopping server\r\n");
bListen = FALSE;
if ( hPipe != INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE )
{
CloseHandle(hPipe);
hPipe = INVALID_HANDLE_VALUE;
}
Printf(L"Stopping server\r\n");
//if ( hThread )
//{
// TerminateThread(hThread, 0);
// CloseHandle(hThread);
// hThread = NULL;
//}
}

ShutDownServer() never returns; the thread that calls it hangs! In fact I
don't
even see the second message. I'm very surprised, not seeing any reason
for that
to happen. Any ideas? Thanks.
--
- Vince

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