THIS_THREAD(3em)

✨ NAME ✨

Okay bestie, welcome to the this_thread(3em) page 💖 — this one's all about this_thread, aka the Emilua bindings for C++'s this_thread. Slay.

🌸 DESCRIPTION 🌸

First things first, here's the whole vibe in code:

local this_thread = require 'this_thread'

print(this_thread.get_id())

So here's the tea ☕: on some Linux systems, getting the thread ID from C++-created threads using pthread_self() is unreliable. Like, genuinely not it. 😭 So if you're debugging your Lua application and you're planning to use FFI to call pthread_self(), you're bound to find trouble — no cap.

Instead, you can use this module to get the current thread-id by interfacing with the C++ runtime directly. Iconic behavior, honestly. 👑

Lowkey important: that pthread_self() unreliability on some Linux systems is the whole reason this module exists. Don't skip the warning, bestie. 💅

That's the whole page, fr fr — short and sweet, just like a good group-chat voice note. 🎀

This little gem comes from Emilua 0.12.1, dated 1980-01-01, and it lives under the THIS_THREAD(3em) manual name. Catch you in the next manpage, bestie! 🦋✨