Re: [boost] Boost.Thread

From: Victor A. Wagner, Jr. (vawjr_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-12 12:16:04

At Thursday 2002/09/12 06:56, you wrote:
>From: "Eric Woodruff" <Eric.Woodruff_at_[hidden]>
>
>
> > Is thread::join () conceptually const? It seems like the kind of operation
> > that shouldn't mutate the thread, simply wait on it.
>
>It's also responsible for cleanup, but I guess that's not much of an
>argument for non-const usage only.

I find it compelling, unless people want to allow a thread to be join()ed 
more than once.  In that respect, I consider it almost exactly like 
assigning auto_ptr<>s  i.e. the source gets altered.  This will become 
especially important if/when we get return values/exceptions 
via  thread::join()

>Bill Kempf
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