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

[José Vallet]

Hello Harald.

Thanks for the help, and sorry to answer late (though better late than 
never). So, just for future reference.

Harald Kipp wrote:

>> Actually closing the socket is what we tried first, but unfortunately it 
>> didn't work. When the socket is closed NutTcpAccept continues blocking 
>> the thread.

> 
> In fact the socket is in TCPS_LISTEN state. When closing this socket, it
> is simply destroyed, leaving the listening thread in a blocked state.
> I'd consider this a bug.

I didn't want to say that myself ;-)
Is this suitable for a bug report?

> 
> NutTcpAbortSocket(sock, ECONNRESET);
> 
> should help here. Although its description states, that it should not be
> called by application code, it is cleaner than using the internals of
> the TCPSOCKET structure.

This works well so far.

Thanks!
José