Re: [Boost-Users] Re: Thread library: get thread id

From: William E. Kempf (wekempf_at_[hidden])
Date: 2002-12-16 16:20:32

olivier_debels said:
> --- In Boost-Users_at_[hidden], "William E. Kempf" <wekempf_at_c...>
> wrote:
>>
>> olivier_debels said:
>> >
>> > I'm using boost_1_29_0 and need to get the id of the current
> thread.
>>
>> Why?
>>
> I have several threads which pop messages from the queue.  I want to
> keep track of what each thread pops (depending on some rules) without
> adding an extra parameter (threadId) in the pop-function.

I don't follow this.

> By this way threads just call the pop-function (they don't know
> anything about the internal cooking of the queue). They get a
> message, which fulfills the rules  (one of the rules is f.e. that no
> two threads can handle the same message at the same time).

How does a thread id figure into this?  What little of this description I
understand gives no need for a thread id.

William E. Kempf