Re: [boost] Re: Boost.Threads - thread_desc concept

From: Beman Dawes (bdawes_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-06-27 07:54:05

At 08:03 AM 6/27/2001, Peter Dimov wrote:

 >From: "Greg Colvin" <gcolvin_at_[hidden]>
 >
 >> I think I like it, but I'm not seeing an easy way to
 >> create a thread object that goes away when the thread
 >> exits.
 >
 >Could I venture a guess that there is none?
 >
 >The 'thread' concept, as currently designed (if I understand it 
correctly,)
 >simply cannot be represented by a C++ class well. Its lifetime doesn't
 >correspond to C++ rules, where usually the creator of an object has
 >explicit
 >control over the object's lifetime.
 >
 >Why not use something like
 >
 >namespace thread
 >{
 >    class id; // or 'desc', if you like
 >
 >    id create(...);
 >
 >// etc
 >};

Yes, that sort of low-level interface is the fallback if we can't work out 
a "spirit of C++" interface.

While I'm really pressing to see if it is possilbe to develop a high level 
interface, I'm not opposed to making the lower level interface public, just 
as the C++ standard supports both <cstdio> and <iostream>.

--Beman