Waiting for Detached Thread

[mqazi]

How can I make main() thread to wait for a detached thread without using sleep ? Is main thread is kernel level thread ?

[Cubbi]

Waiting for a detached thread defeats the point: threads are detached if there's no reason to join them.
As a workaround, the main thread could wait on a condition variable that is notified by the detached thread at exit.

[mqazi]

thanks Cubbi

[kbw]

... or you could not detatch the thread in the first place.