Merge pull request #5964

9a1dcea Use CScheduler for net's DumpAddresses (Gavin Andresen)
ddd0acd Create a scheduler thread for lightweight tasks (Gavin Andresen)
68d370b CScheduler unit test (Gavin Andresen)
cfefe5b scheduler: fix with boost <= 1.50 (Cory Fields)
ca66717 build: make libboost_chrono mandatory (Cory Fields)
928b950 CScheduler class for lightweight task scheduling (Gavin Andresen)
e656560 [Qt] add defaultConfirmTarget constant to sendcoinsdialog (Philip Kaufmann)

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 37 deletions

diff --git a/src/util.h b/src/util.h
index 483d9d7858..4cc0faf4d7 100644
--- a/src/util.h
+++ b/src/util.h
@@ -203,43 +203,6 @@ void SetThreadPriority(int nPriority);
 void RenameThread(const char* name);
 
 /**
- * Standard wrapper for do-something-forever thread functions.
- * "Forever" really means until the thread is interrupted.
- * Use it like:
- *   new boost::thread(boost::bind(&LoopForever<void (*)()>, "dumpaddr", &DumpAddresses, 900000));
- * or maybe:
- *    boost::function<void()> f = boost::bind(&FunctionWithArg, argument);
- *    threadGroup.create_thread(boost::bind(&LoopForever<boost::function<void()> >, "nothing", f, milliseconds));
- */
-template <typename Callable> void LoopForever(const char* name,  Callable func, int64_t msecs)
-{
-    std::string s = strprintf("bitcoin-%s", name);
-    RenameThread(s.c_str());
-    LogPrintf("%s thread start\n", name);
-    try
-    {
-        while (1)
-        {
-            MilliSleep(msecs);
-            func();
-        }
-    }
-    catch (const boost::thread_interrupted&)
-    {
-        LogPrintf("%s thread stop\n", name);
-        throw;
-    }
-    catch (const std::exception& e) {
-        PrintExceptionContinue(&e, name);
-        throw;
-    }
-    catch (...) {
-        PrintExceptionContinue(NULL, name);
-        throw;
-    }
-}
-
-/**
  * .. and a wrapper that just calls func once
  */
 template <typename Callable> void TraceThread(const char* name,  Callable func)