Re: [Boost-users] Access to underlying system thread

Yang Zhang wrote:

Hi, I like using boost threads, but I'm currently working on a project where I need to access the private handle to the underlying system thread (in the cases I'm concerned about, the pthread_t). This is so that I can take advantage of platform-specific functionality, such as setting CPU affinity and (more generally) calling into other libraries that expect a pthread_t. Is there any way to do get this handle?

Thanks!

class thread { public: ... typedef platform-specific-type native_handle_type; native_handle_type native_handle(); ... }; I haven't used it myself though. --Johan