On Fri, 10 Jun 2011 22:27:49 +0200, Christopher Pisz
1) Why can't I pass boost::io_service by reference in the call, boost::thread workerThread(DoWork, 1, ioService); with a function signature of void DoWork (const unsigned int threadNum, boost::asio::io_service * ioService) ? I changed it to a pointer and it works, but I don't know why I can't do it by reference.
Use boost::ref: boost::thread workerThread(DoWork, 1, boost::ref(ioService));
2) If boost::thread is not copyable, how can I store a collection of "thread handles" or boost::thread objects like the variable workerThread? I can't use the std collections I would usually use...
You can create boost::thread objects with new and put the pointers in boost::shared_ptrs or a pointer container like boost::ptr_vector. HTH, Boris
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