Re: [Boost-users] Conditional thread join

Subject: Re: [Boost-users] Conditional thread join
From: David Abrahams (dave_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-11-22 21:47:23

At Mon, 22 Nov 2010 16:12:22 -0800 (PST),
Chris wrote:
> 
> No, I want to stop when either thread finishes
> something like a join_any(). Does that exist?
> 
> greetings
> Chris
> 
> 	} while (...);
> }  // Write()
> 
> 
> boost::thread thrd1(Read);
> boost::thread thrd2(Write);
> 
> // I don't want the following
> thrd1.join();
> thrd2.join();
> 
> No, I want to stop when either thread finishes
> something like a conditional join. Does that exist?

Sounds like a job for condition variables.

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