[Vortex] Thread ID

["Robert M. Münch"]

Am 16.08.2011 um 09:41 schrieb Francis Brosnan Blazquez:

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>>        Hi, is it possible to access the thread ID of a Vortex thread?
> 
> This is highly dependant on your OS...because vortex uses OS threads,
> check OS thread documentation to get this safely..

I tried and didn't find anything simple to get the thread ID on OSX, only the process ID.

>>        I need to log from my handlers and need the ID to distinguish
>>        from which thread the handler was called. I'm on OSX, where
>>        gettid() is not available. getpid() only returns the same
>>        value for all threads so doesn't help too. 
>> 
>>        pthread_self() doesn't help again, as it seems to return a
>>        struct, but I can't access its members as there are opaque and
>>        immediately create a bus error on OSX.
> 
> Ok, assuming pthread_self is an address memory, you can just use that as
> identifier:
> 
>   printf ("%d\n", PTR_TO_INT (pthread_self()));

I will try this.

> Checking pthread_self manual, reveals there is a gettid call that
> provides just what you are looking but I'm not sure if it is available
> on MAC OS/X…..

No it's not available, that's the problem :) Maybe anyone else knows how to get the thread ID on OSX in a simple way. Robert