From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-28 15:05:48
Anthony Williams:
> 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.
At this point how far would you be from N2178? It does give you this exact
functionality, and in addition, one gets always-joinable handles that keep
referring to its thread unless assigned something else.
http://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2007/n2178.html