Hi all, I want to use the boost thread library as a base for my multiplatform thread class. After I have studied the documentation I recognize that there are not all things available at the moment what I need, so I try to find out what is the best way to start my implementation. What I need, is to implement the following additional methods: suspend, resume, stop (or terminate), set_priority, get_priority, get_state and I want to have the possibility to create threads in a suspend mode. I want to use the boost thread as is and extend the needed features in my own class, but it seems so that their is at the moment no legal way to get the internal thread resource from a created thread, so that I can implement the missing and perhaps not portable features by my own? So what is the prefered way to extend the thread class? Is their a reasonable way to do it or should I build my own class from scratch? many thanks for any input and guess, regards Arno