Thread library: get thread id

From: olivier_debels olivier_debels_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-16 06:32:39

I'm using boost_1_29_0 and need to get the id of the current thread.

Is there a way to get the id of the current thread using boost?  I 
don't see how I can access the current thread (Is there some sort of 
current function?).

If I could access the current thread, I could write a getId() 
function (in a class subclassed from boost::thread).  Only problem 
there is the return type.  It seems the id is an int in windows 
environment, a pthread_t in POSIX and a MPTaskID in MACOS.  Those 
last two seems to be pointers to struct.  I guess it is possible to 
cast all of them to long (using reinterpret casting), but maybe I am 
overlooking something then.

thanks,

Olivier.