Re: [Boost-users] How to create a timer in boost::thread

Thanks. Can you please tell me what do you mean by 'wait (until an xtime)'? On 6/16/07, me22 wrote:

On 16/06/07, Meryl Silverburgh wrote:

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Can you please tell me if i can do this with boost::thread library? 1. create a timer (say 5 seconds) which execute a function in a different thread when it expires. 2. the creator can cancel the timer before it expires.

It's not premade, but you could do it easily enough. Start a thread which will wait (until an xtime), then call a function (stored in a boost::function perhaps), so long as a flag isn't set (you could make that in a shared_ptr<bool> to avoid lifetime worries).

Starting a thread for each one probably wouldn't be too scalable, but it should work.

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