Re: [Boost-Users] stop a thread

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-10 07:42:57

> From: "hlh771 <hlh771_at_[hidden]>" <hlh771_at_[hidden]>
> 
> How to stop(or cancel) a thread? Suppose I have a main thread and a 
> worker thread, the worker thread does something looply,and when the 
> main thread get a message indicating the process should exit, I want 
> stop the worker thread,how to do that?I have read other thread 
> library,their thread class supply a method called stop or cancel 
> which stops the thread. Their Implementation is:the thread class has 
> a data member indicating whether the thread should stop,and the 
> thread function looply check the data member whether the thread 
> should stop.Generally the data member's type is a bool or Event.
> Is it the best way to stop the thread? How the boost to deal with 
> this?
> Thanks in advance.

Today you should use a flag and a condition/mutex combination.  Direct support for cancellation is being provided in a future release.

William E. Kempf
wekempf_at_[hidden]