Re: Thread and join

[David Sugar]

If you delete the child thread with the delete operator from the main
thread, the main thread will suspend pending on the join.  Hence you only
need to do a delete.

On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Marcelo Dalmas wrote:

> So, how to suspend the execution of main thread to wait a thread?
>
> With pthread i do:
> main ()
> {
>       pthread_t *thread;
>
>       pthread_create(thread);
>       do something;
>       pthread_join(thread);
>
>       return 0;
> }
>
> Now, with CommonC++ I do:
>
> main()
> {
>       MyThread *thread = new MyThread();
>
>       thread->Start();
>       do something;
>
>       while ( thread->isRunning() )  // why not thread->Join() ?
>               sleep(1);
>
>       delete thread;
>       return 0;
> }
>
> On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, David Sugar wrote:
>
> >
> > Join is an operation that occurs when a thread is deleted.  There is
> > little reason to have the thread exist once it is joined, and the thread
>
> I don't think so. If there are two indepents things to do, like add
> number, i could do :
>
>               |
>               ^
>             /   \
>         1+2+...   1+2+..
>            \    /
>              a+b
>
> > class is a container for the running execution context.  Hence, seperately
> > joining a thread is usually not a useful operation outside of deleting it,
> > although it can be done with the Terminate() member which performs a join.
> >
> >
>
> Thanks
>
> Marcelo Dalmas
> BRASMAP Sistemas
> www.brasmap.com.br
> Fone/Fax: (48) 333-2218 ramal 2114
>
>
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