"Eric J. Holtman"
It looks like the new C++ standard threading library is going to call terminate() on a thread if it's being destructed, and has not been detached or joined.
Is boost::thread going to change to emulate that behavior? (Currently, it calls detach(), not terminate()).
Maybe.
I hadn't been calling detach () in my programs when I was spinning off a thread that I didn't care about joining later. Should I be doing that, just so my code works with either library?
Yes. It is clearer to explicitly detach your threads. Anthony -- Author of C++ Concurrency in Action http://www.stdthread.co.uk/book/ just::thread C++0x thread library http://www.stdthread.co.uk Just Software Solutions Ltd http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL, UK. Company No. 5478976