On Mon, Sep 4, 2017 at 6:18 AM, Elizabeth Mattijsen <l...@dijkmat.nl> wrote:
> That can not be relied on in general, I’m afraid. However, after some > discussion, it appears that there is some support for an > "is-initial-thread” method: > > https://irclog.perlgeek.de/perl6-dev/2017-09-04#i_15112552 > > Note that the feeling is that you shouldn’t write code that depends on > this. > NativeCall users are likely to have a need for code that is guaranteed to execute on the initial OS thread, and for specific C calls to always be made on the same OS thread (both of these are related to thread-local state; the former is often but not always such state initialized by something not under the caller's control in the initial thread, often by a shared object). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
