boost.threads [was RE: [boost] Re: sockets /network programming Requirements]

From: williamkempf_at_[hidden]
Date: 2001-08-03 12:17:42

--- In boost_at_y..., John Max Skaller <skaller_at_m...> wrote:
> Scott McCaskill wrote:
> 
> > Thanks, got it.  I've been perusing the source quite intently and 
so far I
> > really like what I see.  I also have a question.  I have an 
application that
> > creates several threads and I want the main thread to be able to 
find out if
> > any of the created threads have died.
> 
> 	This sounds like a possible design error.

That's the first reaction any competent MT programmer should have.  
The second reaction should also be to wonder if he's not dealing with 
a valid, though unusual, design.  There are corner cases where such 
designs are the most elegant solution to a problem, even if there 
exist other, more complicated, solutions.

That said, I believe the reasons for such designs are unusual enough 
that it would be a mistake to account for them in the library.

Bill Kempf