c - How to let a thread which blocks on recv() exit gracefully?

Question

There is a thread likes this:

{  
    ......    
    while (1)
    {
        recv(socket, buffer, sizeof(buffer), 0);
        ......
    }
    close(socket);           
}  

Because the thread is blocking on recv() call, how can I let the thread exit gracefully?

Answer 1

You can call:-

shutdown(sock, SHUT_RDWR)    //on the remote end

Check this out.