boost::thread exit code?

What is the standard way to get an exit code from a boost::thread ?

The docs开发者_Python百科 don't seem to touch on this subject at all.

POSIX doesn't support return codes from threads. I recommend you use a future: C++11 provides futures in the standard library, or if you're on an older version of C++, the Boost.Thread library has had an excellent implementation of futures since version 1.41. This gives you a common syntax for both blocking and non-blocking communication, lets you return any type of object, and as the icing on the cake lets you propagate exceptions out of threads.

Since Boost.Thread copies the functor you pass it David's solution won't work in any real-world example. You basically have two options:

1. Allocate an array of exit codes and pass a reference to a unique exit code into the constructor of each functor. Pretty straight forward to implement.
2. If you're only creating a single thread from a particular functor, then the functor can hold a shared smart pointer to a dynamically allocated exist code which can then be read by original functor object.

Here are examples of each method:

Method 1:

#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/xtime.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

#include <iostream>

struct thread_alarm
{
    thread_alarm(int secs, int &ec) : m_secs(secs), exit_code(ec) {  }
    void operator()()
    {
        boost::xtime xt;
        boost::xtime_get(&xt, boost::TIME_UTC);
        xt.sec += m_secs;

        boost::thread::sleep(xt);

        std::cout << "alarm sounded..." << std::endl;

        exit_code = 0xDEADBEEF;
    }

    int m_secs;
    int &exit_code;
};

typedef boost::shared_ptr<boost::thread> BoostThreadPtr;

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    int secs = 1;
    int exit_codes[10];

    BoostThreadPtr threads[10];

    for (int i = 0; i<10; ++i) {
        std::cout << "setting alarm for 1 seconds..." << std::endl;
        thread_alarm alarm(secs, exit_codes[i]);
        threads[i] = BoostThreadPtr(new boost::thread(alarm));
    }

    for (int i = 0; i<10; ++i) {
        threads[i]->join();
        std::cout << "exit code == 0x" << std::hex << exit_codes[i] << std::endl;
    }
}

Method 2:

#include <boost/thread/thread.hpp>
#include <boost/thread/xtime.hpp>
#include <boost/shared_ptr.hpp>

#include <iostream>

struct thread_alarm
{
    thread_alarm(int secs) : m_secs(secs) { exit_code = IntPtr( new int(0) ); }
    void operator()()
    {
        boost::xtime xt;
        boost::xtime_get(&xt, boost::TIME_UTC);
        xt.sec += m_secs;

        boost::thread::sleep(xt);

        std::cout << "alarm sounded..." << std::endl;

        *exit_code = 0xDEADBEEF;
    }

    int m_secs;

    typedef boost::shared_ptr<int> IntPtr;
    IntPtr exit_code;
};

int main(int argc, char* argv[])
{
    int secs = 5;
    std::cout << "setting alarm for 5 seconds..." << std::endl;
    thread_alarm alarm(secs);
    boost::thread thrd(alarm);
    thrd.join();
    std::cout << "exit code == 0x" << std::hex << *(alarm.exit_code) << std::endl;
}

I don't know that the thread exit code is available as that's operating system specific. You could simulate passing an exit code or result code by doing something like this:

struct callable {
    int result;
    void operator()()
    {
        result = 42;
    }
};

void process_on_thread() {
    callable x;
    boost::thread processor(x);

    processor.join();
    int result = x.result;
}