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ThreadKey Class Reference

This class allows the creation of a thread context unique "pointer" that can be set and retrieved and can be used to create thread specific data areas for implementing "thread safe" library routines. container for thread specific data storage. More...

#include <thread.h>

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Public Methods

ThreadKey ()

Create a unique thread specific container.

~ThreadKey ()

Destroy a thread specific container and any contents reserved.

void* getKey (void)

Get the value of the pointer for the thread specific data container. More...

void setKey (void *)

Set the value of the pointer for the current thread specific execution context. More...

Detailed Description

Finally, Common C++ supports a thread-safe "AtomicCounter" class. This can often be used for reference counting without having to protect the counter with a separate Mutex counter. This lends to lighter-weight code.

Author(s):: David Sugar <dyfet@ostel.com>

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

ThreadKey::ThreadKey ( )

Create a unique thread specific container.

ThreadKey::~ThreadKey ( )

Destroy a thread specific container and any contents reserved.

Member Function Documentation

void * ThreadKey::getKey ( void )

Get the value of the pointer for the thread specific data container.
A unique pointer can be set for each execution context.

Returns:
a unique void * for each execution context.

void ThreadKey::setKey ( void * )

Set the value of the pointer for the current thread specific execution context.
This can be used to store thread context specific data.
Parameters:

ptr to thread context specific data.

The documentation for this class was generated from the following file:

thread.h

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