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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.

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Warnings

The Challenge of detach: Of course we can use t.detach() instead of t.join() in the last program. The thread t is not joinable anymore; therefore, its destructor didn’t call std::terminate. But now, we have another issue. The program behavior is undefined because the main program may complete before the ...