Why connect() fails in the worker thread but succeeds in the main thread?

[Wenrich]

In my MFC application running on Win2k, the following code fails in a worker thread, but succeeds in the main thread. \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ servaddr.sin_family = AF_INET; servaddr.sin_port = htons(PORT); servaddr.sin_addr.S_addr = IP; int ret = connect(sockfd, (struct sockaddr *) &servaddr, sizeof(servaddr)); \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ In the worker thread, the error is always WSAETIMEDOUT, never succeeds! But the same code in an applicaiton running on WinCE works well! What's wrong with it? Thanks a lot!

[RobJones]

I believe you need to use a UI type thread instead of a worker thread because the worker thread doesn't have a message pump.. Rob