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<H4 CLASS="western">POSIX Threads for Windows – REFERENCE -
<A HREF="http://sources.redhat.com/pthreads-win32">Pthreads-w32</A></H4>
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<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 &lt;pthread.h&gt;</B> 
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<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>
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	<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>
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<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>
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