Please use <code>...</code> around your blocks of code, not <pre>...</pre>. Also, please use <readmore>...</readmore> around long posts such as this one. Please update your post in this fashion to save the janitors the trouble.

Now, about your question,

Ideally, you'd timeout accept periodically in order to check for service messages. accept itself doesn't accept a timeout, so I'd check if alarm can interrupt accept in Windows.