Re: [Boost-users] is it possible to initialize thread local storage automatically?

From: Václav Haisman (v.haisman_at_[hidden])
Date: 2008-06-14 18:06:21

Frank Birbacher wrote, On 14.6.2008 22:55:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm looking for a method to execute some code for each thread starting. 
> It suffices to run that code for each boost::thread. I want to 
> initialize some thread local storage for each thread automatically. The 
> creating(!) thread shall supply an initial value and the created(!) 
> thread shall receive this value, essentially a copy of some thread local 
> variable. That is the new thread shall create a copy of the same 
> variable which the creating thread has. Is that possible using 
> boost::thread?
> 
> I hope my explaination is clear enough.
> 
> Frank
I think you could pass the value to your thread function as bare pointer and 
then store it in boost::thread_specific_ptr<>.

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VH