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Hi all,
i'm missing something like PThread's pthread_cancel.
In point 9 of http://tinyurl.com/yn2y7m it is stated: "There's a valid need for thread termination, so at some point Boost.Threads probably will include it, but only after we can find a truly safe (and portable) mechanism for this concept." I am not sure if Boost.Threads is actively maintained, so I don't know when "at some point" is...
Is there a Way to use Boost::Threads in a similar Way. I looked in the Docu and didn't find anything similar to pthread_cancel.
We normally use some kind of inter-thread communication for that purpose. If we communicate threads using a message queue, for example, we have a message that says: "ok, time to die". ;) It is not the same, but it is almost always sufficient (In our work, we use a lot of sockets, so we have developed similar mechanisms that we use for socket.read's or ::select's, for example)
Is there another Functionality which kind of "implement" this Behaviour of PThreads or am i blind and don't see where it's written in the Docu?
I don't think so.
I don't want to use anything else because Boost is a very good Collection of Libraries, which are very well written.
Yes, I agree. :-) Regards.