Best way to start a thread as a member of a C++ class?

Question

I\'m wondering the best way to start a pthread that is a member of a C++ class? My own approach follows as an answer...

Answer 1

I have used three of the methods outlined above. When I first used threading in c++ I used static member functions, then friend functions and finally the BOOST libraries. Currently I prefer BOOST. Over the past several years I've become quite the BOOST bigot.

BOOST is to C++ as CPAN is to Perl. :)