Re: [Boost-users] proper way to wait for threads ends

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-15 09:42:17

Axel <axel.azerty_at_[hidden]> writes:

> I m writting a program which create threads following commands received 
> on a socket connection.
> When exiting, I'd like to wait that all dynamically created threads have 
> ended their jobs.
> I thought about using a shared variable (with mutual exclusion) that 
> threads would increment at start and decrement at end.
> And then the program would stop, loop on sleep() while this shared 
> variable is still > 0.
>
> Is there a better way to wait for the end of threads ?

Call t.join() for each thread t. Alternatively put them all in a thread_group
and call join_all().

Anthony
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