Re: [Boost-users] [thread] Segfault constructing a thread

From: Ken Klose (ken.klose_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-04-28 17:27:36

Peter,

Thank you very much.  Your suggestions have fixed it.

Ken

"Peter Dimov" <pdimov_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
news:<008b01c789b2$21b0fe20$6607a8c0_at_pdimov2>...
> Ken Klose wrote:
> > I've got a singleton object that is trying to run its operator()
> > method in a separate thread, but I'm getting a segfault when I
> > construct the thread object:
> >
> > PublishedListener::PublishedListener(string directory)
> > {
> >    _thread = new thread(*this);   // segfault here
> > }
> 
> This line makes a copy of *this. It's very likely that this isn't what
you 
> want. Use ref(*this) to store a reference, and consider disabling the
copy 
> constructor and the assignment operator of the class.