Re: [boost] Re: Bug in boost::thread ?

From: Bronek Kozicki (brok_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-12-12 16:52:19

Michael Glassford <glassfordm_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> 
>> I guess that threads library is
>> somewhere waiting for this thread to get started?
> 
> Yes, it does. If you look in thread.cpp, you'll see that the last
> line of 
> the thread constructor (not the default constructor but the one that
> takes a threadfunc parameter) calls param.wait(), which waits until

Naiive solution would be to change constructor to:
thread::thread(const function0<void>& threadfunc, bool wait = true)
but is it safe ?

B.