RE: [boost] Child processes

From: Glen Knowles (gknowles_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-06-22 19:22:19

> I don't know how java deals with this but on posix platforms 
> a sub-process holds some resources that have to be claimed 
> back by the parent process.
> This includes (but is not restricted to) the result of the 
> process, i.e.
> its return value. In case you are familiar with (posix) 
> threads: there you have to join a thread after it terminated. 
> It's conceptually the same thing here.
> 

If you find yourself joining posix's threads only for this reason you should
consider setting the detachstate attribute to PTHREAD_CREATE_DETACHED
instead.

Glen