How to detach a poco thread?

[jhodgson2]

Hi, I've started using the poco library for a project and I'm wondering how I can detach a poco thread. I'm unable to find anything in the docs for this functionality. I need to be able to create threads which won't be joined and instead will send a notification back to the main thread once they're done.

Thank you!

[kblaschke]

You may have figured it out yourself already, but for anyone else asking this question:

If you use Poco::Thread, the underlying OS thread is always detached (using pthread_detach() on UNIX and CloseHandle() on Windows) when the Thread object is destroyed and the thread is still running and not joined. This is quite different from std::thread behavior, which will call std::terminate if it's still running, so you have to call std::thread::detach() (or join the thread) before destroying the object.

So you can just create a Poco::Thread object, start() it and then immediately destroy the object again. The thread will then continue to run until finished.