Re: [boost] [thread] thread interruption semantics

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2007-11-14 05:59:09

"Preston A. Elder" <prez_at_[hidden]> writes:

> On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 03:22:29 +0000, Preston A. Elder wrote:
>> So, is it possible to get this fixed? :)
>
> Last email for today (I'm going to bed :P)
>
> if (!thread_ptr || *thread_ptr != boost::thread())
>     return false;
>
> The above code does not work anymore.  At least, my app stopped working 
> because of the above code.  I had to change it to:
> if (!thread_ptr || thread_ptr->get_id() != boost::this_thread::get_id())
>     return false;
>
> But a lot of code will have been written for the former ;)
>
> My tests are on the pthreads implementation.

Aha. This is a breaking change. A default-constructed boost::thread used to
refer to the current thread. Now it refers to "not any thread", so it always
compares not equal to any running thread.

Anthony
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