Recv loop in a pthread - how to exit

[teal kindle]

A friend is doing a basic program where you have a pthread that does

while (recv(...)) {...}
```is there any mechanism for interrupting that recv from another thread (apparently you can signal threads and make recv return EINTR that way, maybe that's a solution - seems like a race though)
My initial idea is to `poll` on that socket and a `pipe`, and then write to the pipe from a separate thread to indicate an exit, but using a pipe as a condition variable seems wrong, but you can't poll a condition variable.

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[scarlet minnow]

Don't allow recv to block your execution and you can periodically check if you should break.

[teal kindle]

@scarlet minnow a timeout loop is indeed what we ended up doing, ty, though it feels wrong.

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[teal kindle]

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