Re: [boost] thread yield

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-23 16:43:17

Jason Hise <chaos_at_[hidden]> writes:

> Can the yield function of boost::thread be used to immediately wake up a 
> thread that is sleeping?  I would like to use this to make sure that 
> certain threads get the chance to exit before the process terminates, 
> without join resulting in the whole program sleeping.

No.

I am currently exploring ideas around waking specific threads on win32 as an
implementation detail of various boost::thread primitives, but I am not aware
of ways to do this on other platforms, such as those using pthreads.

Anthony
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