----- Original Message ----- From: "Anthony Williams" <anthony.ajw@gmail.com> To: <boost@lists.boost.org> Sent: Wednesday, May 28, 2008 5:04 PM Subject: Re: [boost] "joinable"
"vicente.botet" <vicente.botet@wanadoo.fr> writes:
just a question that could clarify my thoughts, can a non joinable thread be interruptible?
No, because you no longer have a handle with which to interrupt it.
I have thought about providing an "interrupt handle" which you can obtain either from a boost::thread object, or by calling boost::this_thread::get_interrupt_handle() or similar, in which case a detached thread would be interruptible.
Ok, the question now is *should* the joinable and interruptible features of a thead be disociated? IMO they should. We can need to interrupt a thread even if we are no interested when the thread finish. If should be better if the the implementation is possible, but I don't think that this is a big problem for the user. Most of the applications could work without releasing the resources that are released when a thread is detached, and preserv attached the thread if they want to be able to interrupt it, isn't it? Regards Vicente