[boost] [thread] feature request priority

Subject: [boost] [thread] feature request priority
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2011-12-06 18:45:55

Hi,

here they are a list of 26 feature requests for Boost.Thread. The 
features are classified as high, middle and low cost (form my point of 
view of course)

I would like to know which features would you like to find on the next 
release. Please could you choose 3 features and if possible one for each 
category, the idea been to provide 1 high, 1 middle and 2 low features 
for the next release.

High
#2100 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2100> thread fails to 
compile with -fno-exceptions <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2100>
#6195 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6195> Provide the 
standard time related interface using Boost.Chrono 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6195>
#6217 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6217> Make uniform 
Boost.Thread and Boost.Interprocess synchronization interface 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6217>
#6230 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6230> Follows the 
exception reporting mechanism as defined in the c++11 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6230> #5150 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5150> boost::thread does not 
print or return the error value when creating a thread fails. 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5150>
#6194 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6194> Adapt to Boost.Move 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6194>

Middle
#2741 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2741> proposal to manage 
portable and non portable thread attributes 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2741>
#2880 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2880> Request for Thread 
scheduler support for boost .. 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2880>
#3696 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3696> Boost Thread 
library lacks any way to set priority of threads 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3696>
#4710 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4710> Missing async() 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4710>
#4725 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4725> Synchronization and 
shared mutex's Get total_count 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/4725>
#5173 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5173> 
boost::this_thread::get_id is very slow 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5173>
#5425 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5425> This patch will 
allow the user to obtain the users thread pointer from a thread group. 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5425>
#5956 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5956> Add optional 
stack_size argument to thread::start_thread() 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/5956>
#6227 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6227> Use of variadic 
templates on Generic Locking Algorithms on compilers providing them 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6227>
#6228 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6228> Add promise and 
futures constructor with allocator following the standard c++11 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6228>
#6229 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6229> Rename the 
unique_future to future following the c++11 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6229>

Low
#1789 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1789> thread_group not 
passing variables <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1789>
#1850 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1850> request for 
unlock_guard (and/or unique_unlock) to compliment lock_guard/unique_lock 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/1850>
#2361 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2361> 
thread_specific_ptr: nature of the key, complexity and rationale 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2361>
#2637 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2637> shared mutex lock 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/2637>
#3567 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3567> Request for 
shared_lock_guard <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/3567>
#6224 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6224> Add the use of 
standard noexcept on compilers supporting them 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6224>
#6225 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6225> Add the use of 
standard =delete defaulted operations on compilers supporting them 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6225>
#6226 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6226> add explicit bool 
conversion from locks <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6226>
#6231 <https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6231> Add BasicLockable 
requirements in the documentation to follow c++11 
<https://svn.boost.org/trac/boost/ticket/6231>

Patches are welcome for any feature. Note that a feature that have all 
the needed patches, code, doc and tests could be included soon.

Thanks in advance,
Vicente