[boost] thread encapsulation with private attributes

From: Nicolas Emiliani (or3st3s_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-05-24 15:43:06

Hi, I was thinking about using boost as much as  I  could on a proyect.
The idea of using the pthread encapsulation  ocurred to me. But I found that
the interface was pretty poor.
I guess it is like that cause of portability. So I thought, ok... I can
inherit from it and encapsulate the
pthread (thats my case) functioanlity I want. But to my surprise the
pthread_t variable called m_thread
was declared PRIVATE... why is that?!... I mean... why wouldn't u want
somedy to inherit and extend
the functionality to the user's will?

thanks for clarifying my doubt.

Nicolas-