Thread Lifetime Management: Warnings and Tips
Explore thread lifetime management techniques in C++. Understand the risks of using detach and learn how the scoped_thread class helps safely manage thread completion by automatically joining threads, preventing undefined behavior and premature program exit.
Warnings
⚠ The Challenge of
detach: Of course we can uset.detach()instead oft.join()in the last program. The threadtis not joinable anymore; therefore, its destructor didn’t callstd::terminate. But now, we have another issue. The program behavior is undefined because the main program may complete before the ...