Thread destruction in boost

From: giltayar (gil_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-05-12 07:24:06

>From boost:thread documentation, it is clear that deleting a thread 
does not kill the thread. I very much approve of this. killing a 
thread is a very "strong" operation.

The problem is that there is now no connection between the system 
thread and the object itself, which (debatably) kills the idiom in 
C++ connection the object and the resource (I never remember its 
name).

Was the idea of doing a "join()" in the dtor brought up? I.e., the 
dtor waiting for the thread to finish? I used it in my library, and 
it was _very_ effective, as I could _know_ that the thread and the 
object have parallel lifetimes, and it also helped me because it 
prevented many "thread-leakage" problems.

Gil

P.S. The question was - "Was the idea of doing a join() in the dtor 
ever brought up?"