A thread that is self terminating, either by invoking exit() or leaving it's run(), will have this method called.

It can be used to self delete the current object assuming the object was created with new on the heap rather than stack local, hence one may often see final defined as "delete this" in a derived thread class. A final method, while running, cannot be terminated or cancelled by another thread. Final is called for all cancellation type (even immediate).

You can safe delete thread ("delete this") class on final, but you should exit ASAP (or do not try to call CommonC++ methods...)

Note

A thread cannot delete its own context or join itself. To make a thread that is a self running object that self-deletes, one has to detach the thread by using detach() instead of start().

See Also

exit

run

Reimplemented in ThreadQueue.