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

From: Anthony Williams (anthony_w.geo_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-10 03:01:38

Yang Zhang <yanghatespam_at_[hidden]> writes:

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

It's there for Win32 and not for pthreads. I'll add it for pthreads on trunk.

Anthony
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