From: Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@...>
Date: 2001-03-12T13:57:38+09:00
Subject: [ruby-talk:12451] Re: Thread::parent ?


   Date: Mon, 12 Mar 2001 08:00:53 +0900
   From: matz@zetabits.com (Yukihiro Matsumoto)
   Hi,

   In message "[ruby-talk:12382] Thread::parent ?"
       on 01/03/11, Eric Sven Ristad <ristad@mnemonic.com> writes:

   |What's the cleanest way to for a thread to access it's parent (ie.,
   |the thread that created it), other than for the parent to pass itself
   |as an argument to Thread.new, eg.,
   |
   |    t = Thread.new(Thread::current){|parent|  ... }
   |
   |If there's no cleaner way, then it might be nice to define a new
   |Thread class method Thread::parent that does that.

   All threads are created equal (except the "main" thread), so that
   there's no such thing like parent thread.  The implementation does not
   preserve the information of the creating thread.

   Do you think it's really worthy to add new slot to the internal
   structure to preserve this information, making things bit complex,
   to allow you avoid passing current thread information?

No, it's not worth it then.
Eric