[boost] Re: Boost.Thread

From: Alexander Terekhov (terekhov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-09-16 07:29:11

"Hillel Y. Sims" wrote:
> 
> "Eric Woodruff" <Eric.Woodruff_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
> news:014f01c25a8f$605ebd80$1800000a_at_soy...
> > When return values enter the picture, join needs to become the return
> value
> > accessor, allowed to be called more than once
> 
> If this is the case, how would the thread library know when to finally clean
> up the finished thread's resources?

When the last reference goes away (i.e. managing thread objects via 
smart pointers; I'd even choose *AUTO*_ptr like move semantics by 
default with some "shared ownership" adapter for {current} standard 
containers and algorithms). http://www.terekhov.de/mythread.c

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int my_thread_join( my_thread_t mt,void** value_ptr );
int my_thread_tryjoin( my_thread_t mt,void** value_ptr );
int my_thread_timedjoin( my_thread_t mt,
                         struct timespec* timeout,
                         void** value_ptr );
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regards,
alexander.