I think your idea is pretty good, however instead of using sleep to periodically check the shared counter, you might try using a condition variable to notify the main thread that a worker thread has finished. The example in the Boost.Thread documentation looks very close to what you want. Alex On 15/05/2008, Axel <axel.azerty@laposte.net> wrote:
Hello
I m writting a program which create threads following commands received on a socket connection. When exiting, I'd like to wait that all dynamically created threads have ended their jobs. I thought about using a shared variable (with mutual exclusion) that threads would increment at start and decrement at end. And then the program would stop, loop on sleep() while this shared variable is still > 0.
Is there a better way to wait for the end of threads ?
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