Re: [Boost-users] proper way to wait for threads ends

From: Kevin Heifner (heifnerk_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-05-15 09:47:09

Axel wrote:
> I m writting a program which create threads following commands received 
> on a socket connection.
> When exiting, I'd like to wait that all dynamically created threads have 
> ended their jobs.
> I thought about using a shared variable (with mutual exclusion) that 
> threads would increment at start and decrement at end.
> And then the program would stop, loop on sleep() while this shared 
> variable is still > 0.
> 
> Is there a better way to wait for the end of threads ?

You could join all the threads.

http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_35_0/doc/html/thread/thread_management.html#thread.thread_management.thread.join

KevinH
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