Re: [Boost-users] How can i kill boost::thread?

On 11/06/07, Meryl Silverburgh wrote:

If I create a thread using boost::thread() library?

boost::thread thrd( &DoWork ) );

How can I kill "thrd" later on?

AFAIK you can't. I think it's because there was no safe, reasonable, cross-platform interface found for doing so. Also, I expect it wouldn't behave well with destructors and exceptions. That's just a guess, though. ~ Scott