just::thread Complete C++ Standard Thread Library by Just Software Solutions

The std::future class template provides a means of waiting for an asynchronous result from another thread, in conjunction with the std::promise and std::packaged_task class templates and the std::async function template which can be used to provide that asynchronous result. Only one std::future instance references any given asynchronous result at any time.

Instances of std::future are MoveConstructible and MoveAssignable, but not CopyConstructible or CopyAssignable.

template<typename ResultType>
class future
{
public:
    future();
    future(future&&);
    future& operator=(future&&);
    ~future();

    future(future const&) = delete;
    future& operator=(future const&) = delete;

    shared_future<ResultType> share();

    bool valid() const;
    bool is_ready() const;
    bool has_exception() const;
    bool has_value() const;

    see description get();

    void wait();

    template<typename Rep,typename Period>
    future_status wait_for(
        std::chrono::duration<Rep,Period> const&
        relative_time);

    template<typename Clock,typename Duration>
    future_status wait_until(
        std::chrono::time_point<Clock,Duration> const&
        absolute_time);
};

Header

#include <future>

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