From: Caleb Epstein (caleb.epstein_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-12-01 17:10:57
On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 16:29:59 -0500, Tim Laplaca <tlaplaca_at_[hidden]> 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.
-- Caleb Epstein caleb dot epstein at gmail dot com