Standard library header <thread>

 

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Technical Specifications

 

Standard Library header files

Language Support
<cstddef> <limits> <climits> <cfloat> <cstdint> <new> <typeinfo> <exception> <ciso646>	<initializer_list> <csignal> <csetjmp> <cstdalign> <cstdarg> <cstdbool> <cstdlib> <ctime>
Diagnostics
<stdexcept> <cassert>	<cerrno> <system_error>
General utilities
<utility> <tuple> <bitset> <memory> <cstdlib> <cstring> <functional>	<type_traits> <ratio> <chrono> <ctime> <scoped_allocator> <typeindex>
Strings
<string> <cctype> <cwctype> <cstring>	<cwchar> <cstdlib> <cuchar>
Localization
<locale> <codecvt> <clocale>

Containers
<array> <deque> <forward_list> <list> <vector>	<map> <set> <unordered_map> <unordered_set> <queue> <stack>
Iterators
<iterator>
Algorithms
<algorithm>	<cstdlib>
Numerics
<cfenv> <complex> <random> <valarray>	<numeric> <cmath> <ctgmath> <cstdlib>
Input/Output
<iosfwd> <iostream> <ios> <streambuf> <istream> <ostream>	<iomanip> <sstream> <fstream> <cstdio> <cinttypes>
Regular expressions
<regex>
Thread support
<thread> <mutex> <atomic>	<shared_mutex> <condition_variable> <future>

 

This header is part of the thread support library.

Classes
thread (C++11)	manages a separate thread (class)
Functions
std::swap(std::thread) (C++11)	specializes the std::swap algorithm (function template)
operator==operator!=operator< operator<= operator> operator>=	compares two thread::id objects (function)
operator<<	serializes a thread::id object (function template)
std::hash<std::thread::id>	specializes std::hash (class template specialization)
Namespaces
this_thread	provide functions that access current the thread of execution
Functions
Defined in namespace std::this_thread
yield (C++11)	suggests that the implementation reschedule execution of threads (function)
get_id (C++11)	returns the thread id of the current thread (function)
sleep_for (C++11)	stops the execution of the current thread for a specified time duration (function)
sleep_until (C++11)	stops the execution of the current thread until a specified time point (function)

Synopsis

namespace std {
    class thread;
 
    void swap(thread& x, thread& y) noexcept;
 
    bool operator==(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
    bool operator!=(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
 
    bool operator<(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
    bool operator<=(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
    bool operator>(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
    bool operator>=(thread::id x, thread::id y) noexcept;
 
    template<class CharT, class Traits>
    basic_ostream<CharT, Traits>& operator<<(basic_ostream<CharT, Traits>& out,
                                            thread::id id);
 
    template <class T> struct hash;
    template <> struct hash<thread::id>;
 
    namespace this_thread {
 
        thread::id get_id() noexcept;
        void yield() noexcept;
        template <class Clock, class Duration>
            void sleep_until(const chrono::time_point<Clock, Duration>& abs_time);
        template <class Rep, class Period>
            void sleep_for(const chrono::duration<Rep, Period>& rel_time);
 
    }
}

Class std::thread

class thread {
 public:
    // types:
    class id;
    typedef /*implementation-defined*/ native_handle_type;
 
    // construct/copy/destroy:
    thread() noexcept;
    template <class F, class ...Args> explicit thread(F&& f, Args&&... args);
    ~thread();
    thread(const thread&) = delete;
    thread(thread&&) noexcept;
    thread& operator=(const thread&) = delete;
    thread& operator=(thread&&) noexcept;
 
    // members:
    void swap(thread&) noexcept;
    bool joinable() const noexcept;
    void join();
    void detach();
    id get_id() const noexcept;
    native_handle_type native_handle();
 
    // static members:
    static unsigned hardware_concurrency() noexcept;
};

Class std::thread::id

class thread::id {
 public:
    id() noexcept;
};