[Boost-users] Thread cancellation

From: Chris Coleman (cqc_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-02-09 08:26:01

Hi,

I know at present that the Boost Threads implementation does not provide 
a terminate() / cancel() function, but the documentation suggests that 
work is in progress to implement this feature once a safe and portable 
way is found.  I was just wondering whether this will appear soon in 
future releases, or if it is likely to be some time? 

At present I can kill a thread internally by simply throwing an 
exception and not catching it.  But externally I cannot.

I have a thread pool server I built some time ago using the pthread API 
and I'm porting it to use Boost Threads.  The server has add() and 
remove() thread methods.  Within the remove function under the pthread 
implementation I could call pthread_cancel(thrID) and that would be 
that,  Obviously I cant call thread.cancel() as I'd like here and was 
wondering if there were any simple ways to signify that a particular 
thread should terminate?

Cheers
Chris

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