Re: [Boost-users] Access to underlying system thread

From: Johan Råde (rade_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-09 11:54:08

Yang Zhang wrote:
> Hi, I like using boost threads, but I'm currently working on a project 
> where I need to access the private handle to the underlying system 
> thread (in the cases I'm concerned about, the pthread_t).  This is so 
> that I can take advantage of platform-specific functionality, such as 
> setting CPU affinity and (more generally) calling into other libraries 
> that expect a pthread_t.  Is there any way to do get this handle?
> 
> Thanks!
> 

class thread
{
public:
...
     typedef platform-specific-type native_handle_type;
     native_handle_type native_handle();
...
};

I haven't used it myself though.

--Johan