RE: [boost] Re: Re: Threads & Exceptions

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-08-12 11:00:41

At Monday 2002/08/12 05:53, you wrote:
>>If join is called on a thread that terminated through an exception, then you
>>could notify the caller of join that the thread terminated through an
>>uncaught exception, but that is another issue.
>
>And how do other threads know that the thread has terminated?

how does join() work?

>   And remember the mechanism needs to be thread safe.  And even after 
> that, what should I do with the knowledge if the thread in question is 
> one created by some library?

if you know it's being "join()ed" does it matter who created it?

>Bill Kempf
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