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Subject: Re: How to get a thread ID?
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On Thu, 3 Jun 2010, V=C3=A1clav Haisman wrote:

>
> Hi,
> is it possible to obtain some sort of a thread ID that identifies a threa=
d
> within a process other than pthread_self()? Something like gettid() on
> Linux? Apparently, on FreeBSD the pthread_t is a pointer type and does no=
t
> identify the thread well enough. GDB on FreeBSD seems to know about threa=
ds
> and does not seem to use the same ID as is pthread_t.

"identifies a thread" well enough for what?  pthread_t is suppose
to be opaque.  Whether it is an int, pointer, or whatever, it is
implementation-defined and not suppose provide any more information
than available through the standard pthread interfaces.  There are
some non-portable interfaces in <pthread_np.h> though.

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