Windows System Programming Third Edition

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•Extension to networked cli ents is straightforward, subject to the limitations of

named pipes discussed earlier in this chapter. Simply change the pipe names in

the header file, or add a client command line parameter for the server name.

•Each server worker thread creates a simple connect

ion thread, which calls

and terminates as soon as a client connects. This allows a

worker thread to wait, with a time-out, on the connection thread handle and

test the global shutdown flag periodically. If the worker threads blocked on

, they could not test the flag and the server could not shut

down. For this reason, the server thread performs a

on ...