[En-Nut-Discussion] killing threads waiting for a connection in NutTcpAccept

[José Vallet]

I have some threads waiting for connections with NutTcpAccept, and I'd 
like to kill them.

The (simplified) code goes like this
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sock = NutTcpCreateSocket();
NutTcpAccept(sock, SERVER_PORT);
mystream =_fdopen((int) sock, "r+b");
whihle(!disconnect)
{
...
}
fclose(sl_stream);
NutTcpCloseSocket(_sl_sock);
NutThreadExit();
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The problem is that while the connection does not arrive the thread is 
blocked waiting for connections, and thus the thread will never reach 
NutThreadExit.

I have "solved" this by sending from another thread an event to 
"sock->so_pc_tq", which is the queue where NutTcpStatePassiveOpenEvent 
(called from NutTcpAccept) blocks waiting for events (connections). The 
result is that, as the stack thinks that a valid connection has arrived, 
all the code between NutTcpAccept and NutThreadExit() is executed 
normally as if the connection had arrived properly.

Though I can live with this for my particular application, I guess this 
solution is ugly and dirty (at least to me) and I wonder if there is any 
other better solution to unblock the thread waiting for connections 
(note: closing the socket does not unblock NutTcpAccept).

Thanks and regards
José