I write a lot of cross-platform code that's used from JNI. In JNI, you should tell the JVM about native threads that are running. Because Java threads are named, when you attach a native thread to the JVM you have to specify a name. It occurred to me that I could write a "jnithread" class that inherits from boost::thread. It would take a thread-name argument. Before the threadfunc runs it would attach the new thread to the JVM, and when the threadfunc ends it would detach from the JVM. It's relatively easy to write such a class, and would make life easier for thread creation within JNI. However, I hesitate because of the lack of a virtual destructor... -----Original Message----- From: boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-users-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of me22 Sent: Wednesday, September 21, 2005 1:27 PM To: boost-users@lists.boost.org Subject: Re: [Boost-users] inheriting from boost::thread On 21/09/05, Simmons, Aaron wrote:

I've been thinking about writing a class that inherits from

boost::thread.

However, I noticed that the destructor isn't virtual. Shouldn't it be?

boost::thread is designed neither as a base class nor to be used polymorphically. Why do you want to inherit from a thread? You still couldn't get at the private thread handles and there are no virtual functions to modify behavior. - Scott _______________________________________________ Boost-users mailing list Boost-users@lists.boost.org http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost-users