multithread server

i write a multi client - server program in MFC
I use multithreading with socket and ca'nt figure it out.

my program create two class base on CSocket : CListenSocket and CClientSocket .

i listen myListenSocket.
when a client connect to server
i accept it.
....
myListenSocket->Accept(*myClientSocket)
AfxBeginThread(CClientThread,???)
...
UINT(CCLientThread,LPVOID para)
{}
...
i dont' know how to put this pointer myClientSocket to thread function...
any help...

Covered in Multithreading 101.

You have a function that is run as a thread, CClientThread in your example.

It has a pre-defined parameter list; ie, that parameter list is predefined by the compiler and the declaration of your CClientThread function must comform to that definition.

The parameter of interest is a void pointer. That's the one that you use.

Take the address of the socket and cast it as a void pointer. Within CClientThread, cast its void pointer argument as a pointer to a socket and then use it.

If you have multiple parameters you want to pass into a thread, then declare a struct to contain all those parameters, create a struct variable and populate it, then pass a pointer to that struct variable cast as a void pointer.

Your help files should have examples of this. Yes, I know that it is not easy to look up specific info in VC++6 help. And if you're stuck with .NET, I found that that is not much better.


Question:
myListenSocket->Accept(*myClientSocket)
Is myClientSocket a pointer? If Accept() is written to return the new client socket through the parameter list, then why are you dereferencing that pointer?

Possibility: Is myClientSocket a socket type and you are trying to pass a pointer to it? In that case you need to use the address operator, &; ie:
myListenSocket->Accept(&myClientSocket);