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

From: Yang Zhang (yanghatespam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-09 17:54:45

Johan Råde wrote:
> 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
> 
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Hmm.  Looking at the source, this doesn't actually seem to be in 
there...at least not in the latest release (1.35).