Your explanation of what you are trying to do is still lacking.

Just for a moment, lets assume that you can arrange for multiple threads to have a copy of the same socket. At this point, you have 1 client writing to 1 socket and multiple server threads wanting to read from it. The first thread that reads the socket will get the data, and all the others won't.

You mention "re-broadcasting". How?

Sockets are point to point. In order for any one server thread to be able to re-broadcast data to every other server thread, it would need to have a separate socket connection for each of those other servers and re-transmit the data to all of them.

For 2 server threads, you would need 2 sockets. 1 to the client and 1 between the threads.

For 3 server threads, you would need 3 sockets + the client: s1<->s2; s1<->s3; s2<->s3; + s(n)<->C;

For 4 server threads, you would need 6 sockets + the client: s1<->s2; s1<->s3; s1<->s4; s2<->s3; s2<->s4; s3<->s4;

For 5 server threads, you would need 10 sockets + the client: ...

For 6 server threads, you would need 15 ... I think you can see where this is going.

And, remember we are just assuming that you could successfully share the socket to the client between multiple threads, which you cannot. You would also have to arrange for each thread to "monitor" all of these sockets waiting for input.

Put succinctly, what you are trying to do is not a "limitation of threads", but a limitation of your understanding. A bad design that could never work.

In order for us to suggest solutions, you will need to explain what you are trying to achieve, rather than how you are trying to achieve it.

If the idea is that all threads will have access to data read from a client, then reading that data from the socket on one thread only and then placing it into shared memory such that all clients have access to it is possible--but there is a problem.