I'm using boost::threads and trying to access the members of the
functor that I start the thread on and can't find information on how to
do it anywhere.
It took me a while to even figure out what was going on but eventually
I determined that creating a new thread actually just COPIES your
functor object. Therefore changing the object's member values from
within the thread has NO effect whatsoever on the object you used to
initiate the thread.
Basically what I'm doing is I create object A. Object A has the ()
operator that boost threads automatically start runnning.
I tell boost I want to start A on it's own thread.
A does some stuff (in this case 'A' is a thread dedicated to serving a
client and my program creates a new A for every client that connects so
that it can cater to everyone at once).
The problem is, if I then call A.getWhatever() it returns null because
everything that has been changed, to my absolute delight, has been
changed on the boost::thread's copy of A and completely ignored the one
I passed into the thread() function.
Basically all I want to know is if there is any way to just access the
thread's local copy of the object. If not it looks like my only other
option is to pass in a pointer to another object that will hold all of
the state data which will mean rewriting a HUGE amount of code :(
Let me know if I've left anything out. I can barely comprehend most of
the stuff I'm doing in this program myself lol.
functor that I start the thread on and can't find information on how to
do it anywhere.
It took me a while to even figure out what was going on but eventually
I determined that creating a new thread actually just COPIES your
functor object. Therefore changing the object's member values from
within the thread has NO effect whatsoever on the object you used to
initiate the thread.
Basically what I'm doing is I create object A. Object A has the ()
operator that boost threads automatically start runnning.
I tell boost I want to start A on it's own thread.
A does some stuff (in this case 'A' is a thread dedicated to serving a
client and my program creates a new A for every client that connects so
that it can cater to everyone at once).
The problem is, if I then call A.getWhatever() it returns null because
everything that has been changed, to my absolute delight, has been
changed on the boost::thread's copy of A and completely ignored the one
I passed into the thread() function.
Basically all I want to know is if there is any way to just access the
thread's local copy of the object. If not it looks like my only other
option is to pass in a pointer to another object that will hold all of
the state data which will mean rewriting a HUGE amount of code :(
Let me know if I've left anything out. I can barely comprehend most of
the stuff I'm doing in this program myself lol.
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