C++0x thread interruption

Question

According to the C++0x final draft, there\'s no way to request a thread to terminate. That said, if required we need to implement a do-it-yourself solution.

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Answer 1

I agree with this decision. For example, .NET allows to abort any worker thread, and I never use this feature and don't recommend to do this to any professional programmer. I want to decide myself, when a worker thread may be interrupted, and what is the way to do this. It is different for hardware, I/O, UI and other threads. If thread may be stopped at any place, this may cause undefined program behavior with resource management, transactions etc.