Windows Ctrl-C - Cleaning up local stack objects in command line app

Question

I\'m writing a console application Windows that creates some objects in the main thread and kicks those off into a loop, only exiting when the user uses the Ctrl-C interrupt. <

Answer 1

You make your loop on a condition variable.

When you receive ctrl-C (SIGINT) you set the condition variable to false and return. The loop will then exit normally.

bool finished = false;

int main()
{
      DBClient db;
      DataPuller p;

      while (!finished)
      {
           // ... do stuff until Ctrl-C comes in
      }
}

// Signal handler or Control handler on windows
// Set finished = true.