Re: set thread priority

From: boxerab (boxerab_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-11-12 10:25:30

Bill,
Thanks for the explanation of your plans for thread priorities.
At the moment, as  a work-around on win32, is it possible to
access the underlying windows thread handle, and set the
priority manually?

Thanks.

Aaron Boxer
boxerab_at_[hidden]

--- In Boost-Users_at_y..., "William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_c...> wrote:
> 
> Mark Storer said:
> > I'd think a relatively simple implementation would be to simply support
> > them when possible, and otherwise turn all such calls into no-ops.
> 
> That would be a major pain for users.  If they aren't available, they
> shouldn't exist, and the hooks for conditional compilation should be
> provided (this is what POSIX does).
> 
> > Coming up with a range of priority values that would be portable
> > shouldn't be too terribly difficult either.
> 
> Actually, this *IS* the difficult part (well, beyond the design decisions).
> 
> -- 
> William E. Kempf