how can i stop the block method DatagramSocket.receive() in a thread

Question

i create a DatagramSocket in the main thread,and then create a inner class thread to listen the port. when i close the DatagramSocket in the main t

Answer 1

With UDP, you could send the socket a datagram from another thread, so unblocking the read(). The datagran could, (depending on your protocol), contain a 'suicide' command or you could use an additional 'shutdown' boolean that the thread reads after read() returns.