The basic approach to this problem is to have a variable that is accessible to both the thread and your program, and then to use one of the thread synchronization primitives to 'protect' the variable from simultaneous access by the program and the thread. Here's a crude example, using an int as the shared data and a critical section for the thread sync primitive: static int SharedVariable = 0; CCriticalSection SharedCS; static UINT Thread(LPVOID parameter); int main() { AfxBeginThread(Thread,NULL); for (;;) { // get our shared variable SharedCS.Lock(); int shared_variable = SharedVariable; SharedCS.Unlock(); // do something with our copy // ... } } UINT Thread(LPVOID parameter) { // do stuff SharedCS.Lock(); SharedVariable = 1; SharedCS.Unlock(); // ... // do more stuff SharedCS.Lock(); SharedVariable = 2; SharedCS.Unlock(); return 0; } Each time either the main program or the thread function need to access the shared variable, they lock the critical section before the access, and unlock it afterward. When locked, a critical section guarantees that only one thread may 'enter' the section at a time. In my example, the main program is only reading the value, using it to monitor the progress of the thread. Software Zen: delete this; Fold With Us![^]

Ok so i got the variable passed to child threads and they can function.. but i need to pass more than 1 variable to the thread char* s and SOCKET ls; lets not worry about the return on the child thread right now.... if i can 2 variables passed the whole process can be done inside child thread.. but one question... about that.. unsigned __stdcall test(void* params){ return 3; ) this return here how can i axs that??? can i access a process like int test(){ return 0; } be accessed from open threads at the same time? btw rigth now its FTP/WEB SERVER with Advanced custom admin functions with GUI. -- modified at 12:40 Friday 23rd March, 2007

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Could you please show me some code? STARTUPINFO Stupinfo; PROCESS_INFORMATION ProcessInfo; char* procnm="Test.exe"; char* tesst; BOOL readIntoMemory; HANDLE h, hWritePipe; LPSECURITY_ATTRIBUTES lpPipeAttributes; DWORD nSize; LPWSTR lpwString = L""; lpwString = (LPWSTR)procnm; LPVOID inBuffer; DWORD nBytesToRead; LPDWORD nBytesRead, lpNumberOfBytesWritten; DWORD bytestowrite; IntPtr StdOutput; Stupinfo.dwX=0; Stupinfo.dwY=0; Stupinfo.hStdOutput=h; CreateProcess(NULL, lpwString, NULL, NULL, FALSE, 0, NULL, NULL, &Stupinfo, &ProcessInfo); ReadFile( h, inBuffer, nBytesToRead, nBytesRead, NULL); WriteFile( (HANDLE)AcceptSocket, inBuffer, bytestowrite, lpNumberOfBytesWritten, NULL); how to use the WriteFile to get a char*?? and do i have it setup correctly? -- modified at 19:25 Monday 31st July, 2006

Assuming you're on XP (or better..) can't you just run your Web Server as a different user - this way the web server will have a seperate desktop, on which any cgi programs will run -- Help me! I'm turning into a grapefruit! Buzzwords!

I think you can get the IP in this manner: sockaddr_in clientAddress; accept( ..., (SOCKADDR*)&clientAddress, ...); in_addr inAddr = clientAddress.sin_addr; Now the four components of IP, from left to right, are in inAddr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b# members: printf("The IP is: %i.%i.%i.%i", inAddr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b1, inAddr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b2, inAddr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b3, inAddr.S_un.S_un_b.s_b4); Hope it helps.

your Character set is Unicode Character Set LPTSTR lpc; lpc=(LPTSTR)LocalAlloc(LPTR,256); wsprintf(lpc,_T("%s"), _T("c:\\code.txt")); WIN32_FIND_DATA FindFileData; HANDLE hp; hp = FindFirstFile(lpc, &FindFileData); LocalFree(lpc);_** **_ whitesky