I found a solution, which was to use pthread_self instead. If anyone more familiar with boost thread could tell me why the original code didn't work, it'd be much appreciated. On Mon, Aug 15, 2011 at 8:43 AM, Yi Ding wrote:

Hi everyone,

I've been dipping my toes into boost threads, and I'm running into a strange issue.  What I'm trying to do is to run a comparison between thread_ids.  I have an object that's "owned" by a thread, and when something calls one of its functions, I'd like to compare the thread_id to the owner's thread id.  So I thought that boost::this_thread::get_id would do the trick to figure out what the current running thread's thread id is.  For some reason, when I call it, an interrupt is signalled to my main thread.  Is boost::this_thread::get_id not the right thing to use here?

Thanks in advance, Yi