Re: [MingW] Multithreading applications do not work

[Richard Frith-Macdonald]

On 24 Feb 2004, at 16:16, Wim Oudshoorn wrote:

> Richard Frith-Macdonald <richard@brainstorm.co.uk> writes:
>
>
> > Does windows support socketpair()?  Perhaps we could use a
> > socketpair to create connected sockets  instead of a pipe?
> As far as I can tell NO.
> (It is not in the winsock2.h file)

A pity.

Another idea ... clumsy, but should work I think ...

create a tcp/ip socket (A) on address 127.0.0.1 with no port specified.
ask it for its port number.
set it listening.
create a new tcp/ip socket (B)
in a separate thread, connect from (B) to (A) producing a socket (C) in 
the main thread.
close socket (A)
use sockets (B) and (C)