Olaf van der Spek wrote:

I'm converting code using pthreads to boost::thread. I've now got this code: Cdns_worker::Cdns_worker(): m_run(true), m_thread(boost::bind(&Cdns_worker::run, this)) { // pthread_cond_init(&m_condition, NULL); // pthread_mutex_init(&m_mutex, NULL); // pthread_create(&m_thread, NULL, Cdns_worker::run, this); }

The data the thread is using is in Cdns_worker, but it seems impossible to delay the thread creation until the end of the constructor, like I could with pthreads.

Not sure why you need to delay thread creation until the end of the constructor. Why not just make sure that m_thread is the last attribute in your header so that it is created last?

What should I do in this case?

You could do this: m_thread_group.create_thread(boost::bind(&Cdns_worker::run, this)); Or this: boost::scoped_ptrboost::thread m_thread; m_thread.reset(new boost::thread(boost::bind(&Cdns_worker::run, this));

I also noticed boost::thread has a default constructor but it's not copyable. What is the purpose of this default constructor?

Creates a boost::thread object associated with the current thread of execution.

And are there any boost::thread examples? I couldn't find them in the documentation.

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