Comment by user695652 on std::thread thread spun off in object, when does it...
I see, though I still don't understand how I would correctly terminate my thread in the destructor, yield woudl not work because my thread runs in an endless loop.
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@kfsone thanks for the comment. Could you specify a bit more on which undefined behavior thread(&Bar::foo, this) is reliant on
View ArticleComment by user695652 on Terminating an std::thread which runs in endless loop
@ NathanOliver But if I detach it and the thread accesses member fields of Bar the behaviour would be undefined after the Bar instance gets destructed
View ArticleComment by user695652 on Terminating an std::thread which runs in endless loop
@Holt thanks for your answer. I have one question: What do you mean by You use an std::atomic<bool> to control the loop;?
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@ Borgleader one of those annoying "remove trailing whitespace situations" when concatenating strings
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@Jon McClung, thanks for your comment. I would like to use the one with double.
View ArticleComment by user695652 on template deduction evaluates to overload of...
thanks for your answer. Could you expand it a bit, I don't see how I can call bar with a non double value in your approach.
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@marcinj I think I undestand W.F. comment but why exactly do we need template<int=0> ?
View ArticleComment by user695652 on Terminating a shell script bar from a script foo
Nice solution, thanks! Once question: in the stop section, shouldn't we delete the pidfile as the last instruction? Otherwise we would always end up in the echo "$pidfile exists." case
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@ Richard Critten But how do you ensure that the prio is constant for each object of a class?
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