David Abrahams <dave@boostpro.com> writes:
Seems to me that if we have "detach()," it we should be asking whether a thread is "attached()," rather than "joinable()." Our documentation says "if *this refers to a thread of execution..." all over it, which would seem to indicate that joinable() is an important question even when you're not about to join().
Thoughts?
"attached()" seems a good name to me. Just about every member function of boost::thread requires that the thread is joinable() for it to have any meaning. I've used the same wording for boost::thread::id as well, but clearly an ID is not joinable(). OTOH, a thread::id could be attached(), meaning it actually represents a thread rather than "not-a-thread". Are you going to be at Sophia-Antipolis? It might be worth raising the same issue wrt std::thread. Anthony -- Anthony Williams | Just Software Solutions Ltd Custom Software Development | http://www.justsoftwaresolutions.co.uk Registered in England, Company Number 5478976. Registered Office: 15 Carrallack Mews, St Just, Cornwall, TR19 7UL