Re: [boost] Re: Threads Rewrite?

From: Peter Dimov (pdimov_at_[hidden])
Date: 2004-07-28 07:04:58

Bronek Kozicki wrote:
> Roland wrote:
>> You are relying on the fact that the c-runtime (with respect to this
>> very thread)
>> is still in a sane state! In fact it might not since the runtimes
>> own detach functions already have been called at this time. (Happens
>> within _endthread).
>
> I saw your post and I think that's strong point *against* using thread
> local storage (as delivered by runtime and OS), and replace it with
> some structure.

Thread-local storage is to be used exactly in scenarios where such
replacement is not possible.