Re: [Boost-users] mix usage of boost.thread and pthread?

On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 6:46 AM, OvermindDL1 wrote:

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Hi all, Is it OK to use both pthread and boost.thread in the same program under linux? E.g., there are two cases: 1. use pthread api to create/join/detach/cancel threads but use boost.thread's mutex/condition_variable etc. to do

On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Hua Su wrote: thread synchronization,

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and this_thread/sleep/get_id/thread_local_storage etc.. 2. use boost.thread api to create/join/detach/interrupt thread but use pthread api to do thread synchronization. I know boost.thread is a pthread api wrapper under linux, but I'm afraid of that the two cases above aren't safe if boost.thread uses some tricks I don't understand. Would you kindly give any hints?

I do not program much using pthreads, so I cannot say about it for sure, but about other threading back-ends I know that you can use them both in the same program, but they do not mix as Boost.Threads registers things and so forth (else things like this_thread will not work on non Boost.Threads).

Why would you want to mix them anyway?

My program is built with a third-party framework that uses some pthread things, but I want to use boost.thread to implement my own part.

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