Re: [boost] Re: Redesigned thread class

From: John Max Skaller (skaller_at_[hidden])
Date: 2001-08-22 00:03:33

williamkempf_at_[hidden] wrote:
> 

> > POSIX:
> >
> > "void pthread_exit(void * value_ptr);
> >  ...
> >  The process shall exit with an exit status of 0 after
> >  the last thread has been terminated. The behavior shall
> >  be as if the implementation called exit() with a zero
> >  argument at thread termination time."
> 
> Hmm... I was not aware that POSIX operated this way.  Seems to me
> that this means the pthreads-win32 isn't compliant (unless they found
> some way to work around this).  The main thread on Win32 is
> synonymous with the process and if you exit the process all threads
> are terminated.  I'm not sure what Boost.Threads will do in this
> regard if/when we add thread::exit().

        AFAIK Linux isn't compliant either. There's no such thing as a thread
under Linux. They're all processes. Any one can die at any time,
the others just keep running. Creating a daemon on Linux is easy :-)

        You may need to add a detach method, and require either
join or detach be called. [Then a fault is the users, no matter which
OS they're using]

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