Idle wait for outstanding threads?

[Aahz Maruch]

In article <f72dac0d.0201300518.35860565 at posting.google.com>,
Alan Kennedy <alanmk at hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>From a main thread, I start a number of threads to execute some
>service, say some database queries. I want the main thread to wait
>until all of the service threads are complete before continuing.

Erno gave you the simple/correct response, but if you explained why you
want the main thread to wait for *all* the subthreads (rather than
processing results as they come in), you might get a better answer.
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