William E. Kempf wrote: > Philippe A. Bouchard said: >> Hi there, >> >> I was wondering if you were planning to implement some static >> thread & >> thread::current() that returns the current thread id (& thread). >> That would be really useful. > > Can't be done with the current non-copyable semantics. (BTW, I'm > assuming you know this functionality still exists, via the default > c-tor.) The next release is changing this, though. What I'm > contemplating as the best design is a thread::current() as you > suggest, with the default c-tor creating a "null" thread... but that > will break existing code, so I have to tread lightly here.
In Brave New World it would be great to derive from boost::thread to easily append some member variables. Matching thread & thread::curent() with the appropriate instance of the current thread also (maybe some static thread::main could be added to match the initial thread). My 0,02$ Philippe A. Bouchard _______________________________________________ Unsubscribe & other changes: http://lists.boost.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/boost
