Re: [Boost-users] inheriting from boost::thread

From: Bruno Martínez (br1_at_[hidden])
Date: 2005-09-21 14:21:21

On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:39:35 -0300, Simmons, Aaron <a-simmons1_at_[hidden]>  
wrote:

> I write a lot of cross-platform code that's used from JNI.  In JNI, you
> should tell the JVM about native threads that are running.  Because Java
> threads are named, when you attach a native thread to the JVM you have
> to specify a name.
>
> It occurred to me that I could write a "jnithread" class that inherits
> from boost::thread.  It would take a thread-name argument.  Before the
> threadfunc runs it would attach the new thread to the JVM, and when the
> threadfunc ends it would detach from the JVM.

Why don't you write an adapter that takes a nullary function and calls it  
between attaches/dettaches.

The syntax of creating a thread would then be:

void worker_func(int i);

thread mythread( jniadapt("mythread", bind(worker_func, 55)) );

Bruno