Re: [boost] Re: Draft of generation 2 thread class

From: Jeremy Siek (jsiek_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-01-19 11:55:29

On Sat, 19 Jan 2002, bill_kempf wrote:
willia>
willia> Not an entirely bad idea.  Instead of an adopt() method you'd have a
willia> constructor that would take the foreign_thread object (yeah, that
willia> name needs to change).  The only problem I see is that when you use
willia> the default constructor (pthread_self() equivalent) the current
willia> thread may not be a "native" thread (yeah, name change).  How would
willia> you suggest we work around this?

First, let me ask a question. How did you plan on handling this? (with
your latest thread stuff, not including my suggestion) How do you
tell whether the current thread is a boost thread or a platform thread?

Cheers,
Jeremy

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