Re: [boost] [thread] Are thread ids unique during an applications life time?

Johan Torp:

IIRC, windows thread ids can be re-used. That is, if you stop a thread X and later start a thread Y they might get the same thread id. Is this the case with boost.thread? What about the standard? It states:

"An object of type thread::id provides a unique identifier for each thread of execution and a single distinct value for all thread objects that do not represent a thread of execution ([thread.threads.class]). Each thread of execution has a thread::id that is not equal to the thread::id of other threads of execution and that is not equal to the thread::id of std::thread objects that do not represent threads of execution."

http://www.open-std.org/JTC1/SC22/WG21/docs/lwg-active.html#783