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Marc Andreson
Marc Andreson

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Boost.Thread timed wait

What happens to thread run under Windows OS, when the timeout occurs using boost::thread::timed_join, and the waiting thread finishes? Does the thread remain or it finishes along with the process?

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Igor R.
Igor R.

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It doesn't matter why a thread finishes (exits), what matters is whether this is the main thread or not: if it's the main thread, then the whole process exits, and all its threads get terminated; if it's a non-main thread, its graceful exit doesn't affect any other threads.

The following article explains a process termination in detail.

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