Shetty, Diwakar wrote:

Hi,

I am using boost:thread.

There does not seem to be any constructor which specifies whether the thread can be started in detached state.

This is correct.

Will I have to use the native OS threading calls to do this?

No. When a joinable boost::thread is destroyed without being used to join, the thread is detached instead. So normally you don't need to do anything special. Ben.