From: Gavin Lambert (boost_at_[hidden])
Date: 2021-10-07 22:40:08
On 7/10/2021 22:09, Alexander Carôt wrote:
> I had been using an old boost system and boost thread lib for a couple of years without upgrading it since approx. 2014. With this old lib the following (simplified) code works fine on OSX:
>
> #include "test.h"
>
> test::test() {
> boost::thread::attributes attrs;
>
> /// START TRACEROUTE THREAD
> #if defined(BOOST_THREAD_PLATFORM_WIN32)
> res =
> SetThreadPriority(attrs.native_handle(), THREAD_PRIORITY_NORMAL);
> #elif defined(BOOST_THREAD_PLATFORM_PTHREAD)
> pthread_attr_setschedpolicy(attrs.native_handle(), SCHED_FIFO);
> #endif
> tracerouteThread = boost::thread(
> attrs, boost::bind(&test::performTraceroute, this));
For Win32, you can't call SetThreadPriority like that -- at best, that's
doing nothing, at worst, you're changing the priority of some random
thread but never the one you intend. (The attrs.native_handle is not a
thread handle.)
You must wait until the thread is actually started before you can set
its priority. Usually the best place to set it is from the thread's
method itself.