Is it okay to do a blocking call to a receive function if your network code is in another thread? Or are there some kind of consequences to that? -=Lohrno

If you have several socket and your network thread is blocked waiting for data from one of them, it will not process the other sockets, even though they may have data and would not block.

One solution is to have your thread block on select() instead : select returns once at least one of the sockets in the set you give it can be read/written to.

If each socket has its own thread, then it''s not a problem.

Unless you have a lot of sockets open