| Doc. No.: |
WG21/N2516
J16/08-0026 |
| Date: |
2008-1-31 |
| Reply to: |
Hans-J. Boehm |
| Phone: |
+1-650-857-3406 |
| Email: |
Hans.Boehm@hp.com |
N2516: Threads API Review Committee Report
The review committee, created by Motion 14 at the Kona meeting,
approved, by a vote of 4 to 2, the inclusion of
the threads API proposal as revised by the editing committee
(
N2497)
for inclusion of the working paper.
We thank the authors and editing committee for their prolonged effort
and careful attention to detail.
The remaining areas of concern were:
- The inclusion of a simplified time and duration API, in spite of an earlier
decision to postpone a full API to TR2. Unfortunately these notions
are needed by the condition variable API, and are thus not easily separable.
- The inclusion of a timed_mutex class. For reasons motivated by
cross-platform implementability, the API here diverges from Posix.
There is some doubt that this interface is sufficiently important, and
the interfaces on which this is based are sufficiently used, that we
should be making such a controversial decision in time for C++0x.
- The treatment of native_handle.
There is a consensus that the above issues warrant further discussion
in LWG. However, the majority is either satisfied with the current
solutions, or feels that it was beyond our committee's charter to
address them, since the controversy affects the substance of N2447,
as conditionally approved by the full committee, and is not concerned
with details of the wording.
We expect further proposals on these issues to be forthcoming.
The majority feels that it is useful to include the threads API in the
working paper at this stage, in that it facilitates more timely adjustments
in other parts of the standard, even if some relatively isolated sections
require later adjustment. We would apologize to the editor for the
added churn, except that he is one of us.