vicente.botet wrote:
The current C++0x and Boost.Thread allows to get native_handle_type of a thread and a mutex but don't allows to set the non portable atributes at the creation, in particular for the thread attributes.
Yes. In particular you can't specify the stack size, and there is no way to change this after creation once the native_handle is available. See this thread: http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.lib.boost.devel/168678 Although I can't find it now, I recall also reading a message from Howard Hinnant where he said that this had been put to the standards committee but had not got anywhere. I think Howard was suggesting that other "interested parties" should put together a proposal in the hope that they would have more luck (but this is a while ago now so I may not be remembering right). To me, since I had other problems with the std::thread proposal (i.e. their choice of cancellation semantics [*]), and because I only care about POSIX, it was simplest just to write my own thread class. [*] If there's anyone else using glibc's pthread cancellation and C++ destructors I would always be interested to talk.... Phil.