Re: [Boost-users] how to make a thread sleep forever

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] how to make a thread sleep forever
From: Eric J. Holtman (eric_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-05-06 11:10:32

On 5/6/2010 9:55 AM, Alex Flint wrote:
> Is there an elegant way to make the current thread go to sleep 
> forever? I simply want the current thread to sleep indefinitely, i.e. 
> until a call to exit() or similar. Obviously I could call sleep() in a 
> loop, or I could create an artificial deadlock, but I was wondering if 
> there is a more elegant way?
>
>
Why can't you just exit the thread?