ebl::thread Class Reference

A thread abstraction class. More...

#include <thread.h>

Inheritance diagram for ebl::thread:

List of all members.

Public Member Functions
	thread (mutex *outmutex=NULL, const char *name="Thread", bool sync=true)
int	start ()
	Start the thread.
void	stop (long wait_seconds=0)
void	ask_stop ()
bool	finished ()
	Return true if thread has finished executing.
std::string &	name ()
	Return name of this thread.
std::ostream &	get_mout ()
	Return a reference this thread's output stream.
std::ostream &	get_merr ()
	Return a reference this thread's output error stream.
Protected Member Functions
void	run ()
virtual void	execute ()=0
Static Protected Member Functions
static void *	entrypoint (void *pthis)
Protected Attributes
bool	_stop
std::string	_name
mutex_ostream	mutout
	Name of this thread.
mutex_ostream	muterr
ostream &	mout
ostream &	merr

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Detailed Description

A thread abstraction class.

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Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ebl::thread::thread	(	mutex *	outmutex = NULL,
		const char *	name = "Thread",
		bool	sync = true
	)

Parameters:

outmutex	A mutex used to synchronize threads outputs/ To synchronize all threads, give the same mutex to each of them.
sync	If true, synchronize outputs between threads, using outmutex, otherwise use regular unsynced outputs.

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Member Function Documentation

void ebl::thread::ask_stop

(

)

Tell the thread it should stop. The thread might be busy finishing some task, so this only tells it to quit when it is finished. One can check if the thread is finished with the finished() method.

void ebl::thread::stop

(

long

wait_seconds = 0

)

Stop the thread. If wait_seconds is zero, stop the thread right now, otherwise wait until the thread has finished its current task or force it to exit if it's not finished after wait_seconds seconds.

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The documentation for this class was generated from the following files:

• /home/rex/ebltrunk/tools/libeblearntools/include/thread.h
• /home/rex/ebltrunk/tools/libeblearntools/src/thread.cpp