Re: [boost] "joinable"

From: Anthony Williams (anthony.ajw_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 11:04:14

"vicente.botet" <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]> writes:

> just a question that could clarify my thoughts, can a non joinable thread be 
> interruptible?

No, because you no longer have a handle with which to interrupt it.

I have thought about providing an "interrupt handle" which you can
obtain either from a boost::thread object, or by calling
boost::this_thread::get_interrupt_handle() or similar, in which case a
detached thread would be interruptible.

Anthony
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