What is a good way to shutdown Threads blocked on NamedPipeServer#WaitForConnection?

Question

I start my application which spawns a number of Threads, each of which creates a NamedPipeServer (.net 3.5 added managed types for Named Pipe IPC) and waits for clients to

Answer 1

One way that could work is checking for m_bShutdownRequested right after the WaitForConnection.

During the shutdown process set the bool. After that send dummy messages to all the existing pipes so they open the connection and check the bool and shut down cleanly.