Re: [boost] Thread: Why is my prog aborting after 283 or so threads?

From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-01 17:10:57

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:29:59 -0500, Tim Laplaca <tlaplaca_at_[hidden]> wrote:
> I would have never thought of that, sounds dangerous!  I tried it and it
> seems to work though.  Is that pretty safe?

100% safe.  See the discussion here:

http://boost.org/doc/html/thread.html#threadconstruct-copy-destruct

That said, it might be nice to have an argument to the boost::thread
ctor to start a detached thread w/o needing to resort to using the
heap.

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Caleb Epstein
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