Good idea, thanks! -----Original Message----- From: boost-bounces@lists.boost.org [mailto:boost-bounces@lists.boost.org] On Behalf Of Bruno MartÃnez Aguerre Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 2004 8:46 PM To: boost@lists.boost.org Subject: [boost] Re: Thread: Why is my prog aborting after 283 or so threads? Just use an auto variable: // some code { boost::thread t(&some_proc); } // thread detached // more code Bruno MartÃnez On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 17:10:57 -0500, Caleb Epstein <caleb.epstein@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:29:59 -0500, Tim Laplaca <tlaplaca@voiceglo.com> wrote:
I would have never thought of that, sounds dangerous! I tried it and it seems to work though. Is that pretty safe?
100% safe. See the discussion here:
http://boost.org/doc/html/thread.html#threadconstruct-copy-destruct
That said, it might be nice to have an argument to the boost::thread ctor to start a detached thread w/o needing to resort to using the heap.
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