Peter Dimov-5 wrote:
cowwoc wrote:
One of my threads has the following logic:
{ at_thread_exit(myHook); while (!shutdownRequested) { // do stuff } }
myHook() { shutdownRequested = true; }
Following your scenario, doesn't this mean that the shutdown hook will never get executed? What will happen? Will exit() hang forever?
It will never get executed. The hook is executed AFTER the thread exits.
So how do you propose I implement the use-case I mentioned? Peter Dimov-5 wrote:
exit() will not hang, it will just terminate the thread (and all other threads) as its very last step (after invoking the atexit handlers and global/static destructors).
But what happens if one of the handlers is itself waiting for the thread to shut down? Also, is at_thread_exit() implemented as an atexit() handler under the hood? If not, how do you prevent it from killing the hook functions prematurely? Thanks, Gili -- View this message in context: http://old.nabble.com/at_thread_exit%28%29-never-getting-called-tp26053513p2... Sent from the Boost - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com.