Re: [Ccrtp-devel] join function for Thread (OST)

[Dan Weber]

On Mon, 28 Feb 2005, David Sugar wrote:

> join simply waits (blocks) until a thread exits or is canceled. Normally you 
> do not have to call join in your application at all; if you  delete a Thread 
> derived object, if it's derived ~destructor invokes terminate(), then during 
> the delete, the target thread will be both canceled and joined for you 
> automatically.  Usually it is best to put terminate() first in the derived 
> destructor, and any other cleanup code after that.  The cleanup code will 
> then execute in the context of the thread that is initiating the delete, and 
> will happen after the target thread has stopped executing so there is no risk 
> of a resource still in use by the target thread.

What I usually do is use join for the mainthread of the application.  In 
my most recent application, Music On Hold, its very sip-centric, and I run 
join on the SipStack thread.

Dan