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| author | Emil Velikov <[email protected]> | 2017-04-29 14:46:02 +0100 |
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| committer | Emil Velikov <[email protected]> | 2017-05-04 18:00:23 +0100 |
| commit | c9c8e1c84d776c23e0ea3e051a97a9c7f7d80c15 (patch) | |
| tree | 2d95ab40a194d246b420f1a95ccb758bbed6e019 /include | |
| parent | f258815c7d4187fd83f6944943e78206a6cdc4cb (diff) | |
c11/threads: rework Windows thrd_current() comment
Drop the misleading "will not match the one returned by thread_create"
hunk and provide more clarity as to what/why GetCurrentThread() isn't
the solution we're looking for.
v2: Places brackets after function names (Eric)
Signed-off-by: Emil Velikov <[email protected]>
Reviewed-by: Jose Fonseca <[email protected]> (v1)
Reviewed-by: Eric Engestrom <[email protected]>
Diffstat (limited to 'include')
| -rw-r--r-- | include/c11/threads_win32.h | 10 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/include/c11/threads_win32.h b/include/c11/threads_win32.h index d017c31c34e..af7df4b9ef5 100644 --- a/include/c11/threads_win32.h +++ b/include/c11/threads_win32.h @@ -502,9 +502,13 @@ thrd_current(void) HANDLE hCurrentThread; BOOL bRet; - /* GetCurrentThread() returns a pseudo-handle, which is useless. We need - * to call DuplicateHandle to get a real handle. However the handle value - * will not match the one returned by thread_create. + /* GetCurrentThread() returns a pseudo-handle, which we need + * to pass to DuplicateHandle(). Only the resulting handle can be used + * from other threads. + * + * Note that neither handle can be compared to the one by thread_create. + * Only the thread IDs - as returned by GetThreadId() and GetCurrentThreadId() + * can be compared directly. * * Other potential solutions would be: * - define thrd_t as a thread Ids, but this would mean we'd need to OpenThread for many operations |