Re: [Boost-users] boost::thread::join causes assertion (pthreads)

Caleb Epstein wrote:

On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 15:30:32 +0200, Peter Dimov wrote:

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A Boost thread is never detached. This is a POSIX-only thing to compensate lack of destructors in C. You either have a way to call join (in which case no pthread_detach should have been called), or you don't (in which case it doesn't matter whether pthread_detach has been called or not).

My mistake. For some reason I thought it was possible to create non-joinable threads.

Just in case it's not clear: it *is* possible to create detached threads. However they cannot have boost::thread objects associated with them (except perhaps as ID holders) because detachment is achieved by destroying the associated boost::thread object. Ben.