Comment author: bhurt-aw

The specific file you have to hack is posix.c in the otherlibs/systhreads library. What this file needs is a function like:

pthread_t get_pthread_t (Value descr) {
/* Get the associated pthread_t for a given thread descriptor */
caml_thread_t curr;

curr = curr_thread;
do {
    if (curr->descr == descr) {
        return curr->pthread;
    }
    curr = curr->next;
} while (curr != curr_thread);
return NULL;

}

Unfortunately, this routine needs a number of definitions out of the posix.c file (the definition of caml_thread_t if nothing else).

Note that this function doesn't scale well with large numbers of threads- in that case, some better solution might be engineered.

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