[Ace-users] [ace-users] Why the spawned thread must be waited?

[Douglas C. Schmidt]

Hi John,

>    I am developing a windows client with MFC and ACE. For user-
>friendliness, the request to the server can be  cancelled. I put two
>threads in the client, one is for UI, the other is for network
>commucation.
>
>    I want to use the active object pattern to handle the net
>request:
>1. The MFC message handler received a button-click event
>2. The message handler creates an agent proxy and an
>ACE_Future_Observer object
>   (exactly like %ACE_ROOT%/examples/apg/active_objects/AO2.cpp)
>3. When the request completed, the ACE_Future_Observer object would
>get the result, then notify the UI thread.
>
>    Now I face a problem: if I don't call ACE_Thread_Manager::instance
>()->wait(), the spawned thread would crash; but when I call it, the UI
>thread would be blocked (and it would succeed to get the result).
>
>    Why must we wait the spawned thread?
>
>    When activated it, I used the flag (THR_NEW_LWP | THR_DETACHED).

It's not clear what version of ACE you are using.  Perhaps you have an
old version with a bug in it?  To ensure that we have proper
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$ACE_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/PROBLEM-REPORT-FORM

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$ACE_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM
$TAO_ROOT/BUG-REPORT-FORM

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Naturally, we encourage and appreciate other members of the ACE+TAO
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to.

Thanks,

        Doug
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