THREADID Get Current Thread Handle

Section: FreeMat Threads

Usage

The threadid function in FreeMat tells you which thread is executing the context you are in. Normally, this is thread 1, the main thread. However, if you start a new thread using threadnew, you will be operating in a new thread, and functions that call threadid from the new thread will return their handles.

Example

From the main thread, we have 
--> threadid

ans = 
 2

But from a launched auxilliary thread, we have 

--> t_id = threadnew

t_id = 
 3 

--> id = threadcall(t_id,1000,'threadid')

id = 
 3 

--> threadfree(t_id);