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Document number: P0206R0

Date: 2016-01-27

Discussion about std::thread and RAII

by Ville Voutilainen

Excerpt:

C++ continues not to provide a thread type that would join() automatically on scope exit. This causes exception-safety problems, because failing to join() in all code paths causes the destructor of a std::thread to terminate(). This paper explores various ways to solve the problem.