Re: boost::thread IDs

From: Russell Hind (yg-boost-users_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-05-13 02:42:02

> 
> I'm having the same problem the original poster had: I'm using the 
> thread ID as an identifier in a data structure (std::map in this case). 
> Now that I'm converting to the Boost threads library, I have to change 
> that. I'm not sure what to do instead.
> 

Under win32, you can call GetCurrentThreadId() to get the thread but 
obviously this isn't portable.

The thread_dev branch of the thread library in CVS has many new 
features, and one of these is to get the threads' id.  You could maybe 
get this copy of the library from CVS or use non-portable work-arounds 
for now.

Hopefully the new version of the thread library will be included in the 
next release of boost.

Cheers

Russell