Re: [Boost-users] Re: boost::thread::join causes assertion (pthreads)

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-22 10:34:00

Ben Hutchings wrote:
> Thorsten Froehlich wrote:
>> Ben Hutchings wrote:
>> 
>>> Since you apparently don't understand the semantics of joining,
>>> perhaps you have in fact made an error.
>> 
>> 
>> I can assure you my co-workers and I perfectly understand joining.
> 
> So you understand that it is possible to join a (joinable) thread
> after it has exited, and pthread_join will not fail in this case.

Thorsten's point is that it fails on Mac OS X.