On Wed, 21 Sep 2005 15:39:35 -0300, Simmons, Aaron
I write a lot of cross-platform code that's used from JNI. In JNI, you should tell the JVM about native threads that are running. Because Java threads are named, when you attach a native thread to the JVM you have to specify a name.
It occurred to me that I could write a "jnithread" class that inherits from boost::thread. It would take a thread-name argument. Before the threadfunc runs it would attach the new thread to the JVM, and when the threadfunc ends it would detach from the JVM.
Why don't you write an adapter that takes a nullary function and calls it between attaches/dettaches. The syntax of creating a thread would then be: void worker_func(int i); thread mythread( jniadapt("mythread", bind(worker_func, 55)) ); Bruno