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Thread Lifetime Management: Warnings and Tips

Understand the challenges of managing thread lifetime in C++, especially the dangers of using detach. Discover how to use scoped_thread to automatically join threads and ensure safe multithreading.

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Warnings

The Challenge of detach: Of course you can use t.detach() instead of t.join() in the last program. The thread t is not joinable any more; therefore, its destructor didn’t call std::terminate. But now you have another issue. The program behaviour is undefined because the ...