I think your idea is pretty good, however instead of using sleep to periodically check the shared counter, you might try using a condition variable to notify the main thread that a worker thread has finished.

 

The example in the Boost.Thread documentation looks very close to what you want.

 

Alex

 

On 15/05/2008, Axel <axel.azerty@laposte.net> wrote:

Hello

I m writting a program which create threads following commands received
on a socket connection.
When exiting, I'd like to wait that all dynamically created threads have
ended their jobs.
I thought about using a shared variable (with mutual exclusion) that
threads would increment at start and decrement at end.
And then the program would stop, loop on sleep() while this shared
variable is still > 0.

Is there a better way to wait for the end of threads ?


_______________________________________________
Boost-users mailing list
Boost-users@lists.boost.org
http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users