Thread
Fields of this type
Fields
Type definitions in this namespace
Types
- SpawnConfig
- Configuration options for hints on how to spawn threads.
Spurious wakeups are possible and no precision of timing is guaranteed.
Functions
- sleep
- Spurious wakeups are possible and no precision of timing is guaranteed.
- getName
- On Windows, the result is encoded as [WTF-8](https://simonsapin.github.io/wtf-8/).
- getCurrentId
- Returns the platform ID of the callers thread.
- getCpuCount
- Returns the platforms view on the number of logical CPU cores available.
- spawn
- Spawns a new thread which executes `function` using `args` and returns a handle to the spawned thread.
- getHandle
- Returns the handle of this thread
- detach
- Release the obligation of the caller to call `join()` and have the thread clean up its own resources on completion.
- join
- Waits for the thread to complete, then deallocates any resources created on `spawn()`.
- yield
- Yields the current thread potentially allowing other threads to run.
Error sets in this namespace
Error Sets
= native_os != .windows and native_os != .wasi and builtin.link_libc
Values
- use_pthreads
- = native_os != .windows and native_os != .wasi and builtin.link_libc
- max_name_len
- = switch (native_os) { .linux => 15, .windows => 31, .macos, .ios, .watchos, .tvos, .visionos => 63, .netbsd => 31, .freebsd => 15, .openbsd => 23, .dragonfly => 1023, .solaris, .illumos => 31, // https://github.com/SerenityOS/serenity/blob/6b4c300353da49d3508b5442cf61da70bd04d757/Kernel/Tasks/Thread.h#L102 .serenity => 63, else => 0, }
- Handle
- Represents a kernel thread handle.