Winsock & Threads
Hey There...
I am writing a small chat program: 1 host, multiple clients.
I managed the message-receiving with an FD_SET and select() to check for new connections and new messages...
Buf i am wondering how i could get them new incoming connections in the main thread and then pass the message-sending/receiving to another?...
Any suggestions... i already tried something but that did not work :(
I am writing a small chat program: 1 host, multiple clients.
I managed the message-receiving with an FD_SET and select() to check for new connections and new messages...
Buf i am wondering how i could get them new incoming connections in the main thread and then pass the message-sending/receiving to another?...
Any suggestions... i already tried something but that did not work :(
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What I did once was wait for incoming connections in thread B (now that I was perusing the code, I noticed that I didn't put a mutex around the push_back() to the vector) and wait for commands from the clients in a loop in thread A. A dedicated thread for each client waited for data and notified thread A that new data was ready to be read from a buffer.
It wasn't my most robust program, but it was okay for first try with networking. It was also a prank on a coworker that allowed anyone in the office to remotely change his wallpaper to anything we uploaded. Heh heh heh.
It wasn't my most robust program, but it was okay for first try with networking. It was also a prank on a coworker that allowed anyone in the office to remotely change his wallpaper to anything we uploaded. Heh heh heh.
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i think u did the data sending on 1 socket?... did u use the send to-function or how did u make that?... or did u open a socket for every accepted connection?...
at the moment my program got the accept socket and returns a new socket for every accepted connection over accept-socket...
how can i make more clients use the same socket for sending and receiving data?...
as far as i know "accept()" returns a new socket which the incoming client will use...
at the moment my program got the accept socket and returns a new socket for every accepted connection over accept-socket...
how can i make more clients use the same socket for sending and receiving data?...
as far as i know "accept()" returns a new socket which the incoming client will use...
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I thought I did everything on a single socket, but I just found a std::vector<SOCKET>, so I guess every accept() gave me a new socket. This code is over a year old, so it doesn't surprise me that I don't remember.
As for sending, I used send().
As for sending, I used send().
Do you realize any solution , how i could get all the Clients stuff over 2 sockets (1 cor connection, 1 for transmission)?... i did google around but didnt find anything fitting...
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