waiting for another thread without blocking resources...

[Lars Uffmann]

I'm not sure what you mean. You can't join a thread if the
thread object which started it has been destructed. There's
certainly nothing that says you can't pass a pointer or a
reference to this object into a function, and do the join there.

You got it right - I was confused by your above statement, making it
sound as if only the object itself was able to call join() - as if that
was private... And I guess I should have known the answer without
inquiring further. Thank you anyways

I'm not sure what the problem is. Boost thread seems pretty
well documented to me. (I learned about this business about
joinable/detached threads from the documentation.)

Well - maybe I have to get used to it, but that's already a bad sign in
my eyes, because I was able to work with php.net and cplusplus.com
reference documentations right away, much different from boost
documentation. I'm not an expert, but not a beginner either...


Anyways - I solved this join() issue, as you can see in my reply to cholo.

Best Regards,

Lars