<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <META HTTP-EQUIV="CONTENT-TYPE" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <TITLE>PTHREAD_GETW32THREADHANDLE_NP manual page</TITLE> <META NAME="GENERATOR" CONTENT="OpenOffice.org 3.2 (Linux)"> <META NAME="CREATED" CONTENT="20050505;322600"> <META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="Ross Johnson"> <META NAME="CHANGED" CONTENT="20110326;18290500"> <META NAME="CHANGEDBY" CONTENT="Ross Johnson"> <!-- manual page source format generated by PolyglotMan v3.2, --> <!-- available at http://polyglotman.sourceforge.net/ --> <STYLE TYPE="text/css"> <!-- H4.cjk { font-family: "AR PL UMing CN" } H4.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari" } H2.cjk { font-family: "AR PL UMing CN" } H2.ctl { font-family: "Lohit Devanagari" } --> </STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY LANG="en-GB" BGCOLOR="#ffffff" DIR="LTR"> <H4 CLASS="western">POSIX Threads for Windows – REFERENCE - <A HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32">Pthreads-w32</A></H4> <P><A HREF="index.html">Reference Index</A></P> <P><A HREF="#toc">Table of Contents</A></P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc0" NAME="sect0">Name</A></H2> <P STYLE="font-weight: normal">pthread_getunique_np – get the unique sequence number associated with a thread</P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc1" NAME="sect1">Synopsis</A></H2> <P><B>#include <pthread.h></B> </P> <P><B>unsigned long long pthread_getunique_np(pthread_t</B> <I>thread</I><B>);</B></P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc2" NAME="sect2">Description</A></H2> <P>Returns the <B>unique </B><SPAN STYLE="font-weight: normal">64 bit sequence number</SPAN> assigned to <I>thread</I>.</P> <P>In <B>Pthreads-win32:</B></P> <UL> <LI><P>the value returned is not reused after the thread terminates so it is unique for the life of the process</P> <LI><P>Windows native threads may obtain their own POSIX thread sequence number by first retrieving their <B>pthread_t</B> handle via <B>pthread_self</B> to use as the <I>thread</I> argument.</P> </UL> <P>This function was added for source code compatibility with some other POSIX threads implementations.</P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc3" NAME="sect3">Cancellation</A></H2> <P>None.</P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc4" NAME="sect4">Return Value</A></H2> <P><B>pthread_getunique_np</B> returns the unique sequence number for <I>thread</I>.</P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc5" NAME="sect5">Errors</A></H2> <P>None.</P> <H2 CLASS="western"><A HREF="#toc6" NAME="sect6">Author</A></H2> <P>Ross Johnson for use with <A HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32">Pthreads-w32</A>.</P> <HR> <P><A NAME="toc"></A><B>Table of Contents</B></P> <UL> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect0" NAME="toc0">Name</A> </P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect1" NAME="toc1">Synopsis</A> </P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect2" NAME="toc2">Description</A> </P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect3" NAME="toc3">Cancellation</A> </P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect4" NAME="toc4">Return Value</A> </P> <LI><P STYLE="margin-bottom: 0in"><A HREF="#sect5" NAME="toc5">Errors</A> </P> <LI><P><A HREF="#sect6" NAME="toc6">Author</A> </P> </UL> </BODY> </HTML>