> For what it's worth, William Kempf began an implementation of thread
> priorities and an exception-based thread cancellation scheme on the
> thread_dev branch before he stopped working on Boost.Threads. If it's
> completed enough (I haven't examined it closely enough yet to tell),
> I hope to move it into the a Boost release after the upcoming 1.32.
> That won't help you right now, however.

I feel sorry about that, but perhaps it is possible to get a look to the actual state?

Arno