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

From: Ben Hutchings (ben.hutchings_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-03-22 12:02:09

Peter Dimov wrote:
> 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.

Well, it does in his program, which none of has have seen.

Ben.