Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Thread idiom

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Boost.Thread idiom
From: anony (janezz55_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-13 14:59:37

On 03/13/10 19:58, strasser_at_[hidden] wrote:
> Zitat von anony <janezz55_at_[hidden]>:
> 
>> Is is possible to inherit from boost::thread and then store pointers to
>> instantiated objects of such classes in say ptr_vector<>?
> 
> why inherit? you can store boost::thread's (or classes that contain a
> boost::thread) in a ptr_vector.

Yes I can, but I need the object pointers too, not just thread pointers.

>> I need to interrupt() a specific thread now and then and once you commit
>> a thread to thread_group you can only interrupt them all at once.
> I don't understand why there even is a class thread_group.
> it seems to me it was only intended to work around the fact that
> thread's are non-Assignable, which is much better solved by
> MoveAssignable in the future, and pointer containers or swap()ing in the
> meantime.

Well, someone is bound to be using it. Anyway, I've tested the idiom and
it works, maybe someone can reveal a bad side to it if there is one.