Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] Interruption Feature

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] [Thread] Interruption Feature
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2009-07-23 19:11:11

AMDG

Timothy wrote:
>    I want to write a signal handler for SIGINT that notifies the 
> main() thread to break out of a loop and exit.  I was thinking of 
> using Boost.Thread's interruption feature.  Does it support this 
> usage, or do I need to use some other way to do this?

It is currently only possible to interrupt a thread which was started
with the boost::thread interface.  This never includes the main thread.
You can always use the same approach that boost::thread::interrupt
uses: poll a flag and exit when the flag is set.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe