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

From: Yang Zhang (yanghatespam_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-04-10 11:33:04

Anthony Williams wrote:
> 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

I see.

While you're at it, would you mind also adding it uniformly to all the 
other threading primitives (mutex, etc.)?

Thanks!
-- 
Yang Zhang
http://www.mit.edu/~y_z/