Re: Thread library: get thread id

--- In Boost-Users@yahoogroups.com, Albrecht Fritzsche wrote:

olivier_debels wrote:

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msg* pop() { // Get next message out of the queue // While no message found ^^^ // Check if no other thread is working on such a messagetype // If not -> return this message // else -> get next message }

To check if no other thread is working on such a messagetype, we take a look in the map(threadId, message type).

But still, what buys you the threadId? if you would change the check to

Check if noone is working on such a messagetype

and possibly use a set, what is missing than?

Ali

I need to know when a message finishes too. So when doing a pop(), I first adjust the map (remove the type this thread was working on). If I just have a set and a thread wants to pop another message, I don't know any more which one has finished before. In other words, when do I remove a type out of the set? Maybe I could do this in the destructor of message however, but this seems a bit ugly no?