Cannot get thread ID with Thread.getThis() in specific callback functions on Windows

[Mike Parker]

On 12/7/2010 2:10 AM, Haruki Shigemori wrote:
> (2010/12/06 16:59), Denis Koroskin wrote:
>> Because D runtime doesn't know about the newly created thread, and
>> static constructors weren't called. Try calling the following in your
>> callbacks:
>>
>> if (Thread.getThis() is null) thread_attachThis(); // if
>> (dont_know_about_this_thread) initialize_it();
>
> Wow... Is this D's design?
> I want phobos or druntime to take care of this problem.
> Is it difficult?

The problem is that the thread is created outside of druntime, internal 
to the Windows API. How is druntime to know about it unless you tell it?