Re: [boost] [thread] Do we need thread_group now?

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] Do we need thread_group now?
From: Ben Pope (benpope81_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-04-15 03:46:29

On Sunday, April 15, 2012 08:22 AM, Vicente J. Botet Escriba wrote:
> E.g. I have started to implement some breaking changes on Boost.Thread 
> as e.g. an incompatibility with the C++11 semantics of the thread 
> destructor. Boost.Thread detach the thread at destruction time, C++11 
> calls std::terminate if the thread is joinable at destruction time. I 
> have already started the stage 0th and I would like to pass to the 
> stage 1st for the next release.

In this case, it would be useful to have RAII classes for joining and 
detaching to prevent std::terminate from being called.  In fact, I think 
Anthony writes in his book that scope based thread_joiner should be 
implemented by the user since it didn't make the standard.

Ben