Re: [boost] [thread] terminating destructor

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] terminating destructor
From: Andrzej Krzemienski (akrzemi1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2012-10-26 03:36:31

2012/10/25 Vicente J. Botet Escriba <vicente.botet_at_[hidden]>

> Le 25/10/12 10:42, Andrzej Krzemienski a écrit :
>
>>
>> Basically, as with the thread's destructor: you have to do something:
>> join,
>> detach, signal run-time error. Your preference is clearly to detach. I
>> could only found this document:
>> http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/**sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2008/**n2802.html
>

>> That gives some rationale against the detachment.
>>
>> My guess is that termination was a good choice for a low-level primitive,
>> and join was a good candidate for a higher-level primitive like async.
>> async (owing to the joining destructor) gives you the ability to think in
>> C-style scoped manner. Or in RAII way. You exit the scope, you are done
>> with the resource (thread in this case).
>>
> Yeah, I think you have explained a good reason to join.
>
>  One may not like this async behaviour. One may write one's own
>> multi-threading library using low-level threads. I guess it was the idea
>> of
>> the Kona compromise.
>>
> Would you like to create a ticket to track this issue?
>

Ticket #7575

Regards,
&rzej