Get parent Tid of a thread?

[Simen Kjaeraas]

On Wed, 29 Jun 2011 22:59:47 +0200, Andrej Mitrovic  
<andrej.mitrovich at gmail.com> wrote:

> Is there any way a newly spawned thread can get the Tid of the thread
> that spawned it, basically its parent? I'd prefer that over using
> this:
>
> __gshared mainThread; // so workThread can access it
>
> {
> mainThread = thisTid();
> auto workThread = spawn(&MidiThread);  // local
> }

std.concurrency actually has a thread-local variable called 'owner',
which is exactly  what you want. However, it is private.

This may very well be worth an enhancement request.

-- 
   Simen