Re: [Boost-users] [thread] Priority?

From: Anteru (newsgroups_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-03-10 11:46:53

Howard Hinnant schrieb:
> I can answer the std::part.  I attempted to introduce a fairly  
> rudimentary priority system into the std::thread proposal and it ended  
> up being sufficiently controversial that I pulled it in order to get  
> the std::thread proposal to advance.  It is my hope (as a fallback  
> position) that the "native_handle" interface will allow one to adjust  
> thread priorities, albeit in a non-portable fashion.

Is it likely Boost::Thread will get some support for this anytime soon? 
This "no-priority" thing is also keeping me back from switching some 
stuff over to Boost, as I wonder how you are supposed to spawn of a 
background-idle thread without priorities. The only cross-platform 
library that supports it is AFAIK Qt -- see 
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.4beta/qthread.html#start, which is quite handy.

Cheers,
   Anteru