changes to thread code (directly use boost::thread)

- removes our NewThread() function an replaces remaining calls with
  boost::thread with our TraceThread template
- remove ExitThread() function
- fix THREAD_PRIORITY_ABOVE_NORMAL for non Windows OSes

1 files changed, 4 insertions, 7 deletions

diff --git a/src/net.cpp b/src/net.cpp
index adc5f93029..1f8b39ac98 100644
--- a/src/net.cpp
+++ b/src/net.cpp
@@ -389,11 +389,8 @@ bool GetMyExternalIP(CNetAddr& ipRet)
     return false;
 }
 
-void ThreadGetMyExternalIP(void* parg)
+void ThreadGetMyExternalIP()
 {
-    // Make this thread recognisable as the external IP detection thread
-    RenameThread("bitcoin-ext-ip");
-
     CNetAddr addrLocalHost;
     if (GetMyExternalIP(addrLocalHost))
     {
@@ -1151,7 +1148,7 @@ void MapPort(bool fUseUPnP)
             upnp_thread->join();
             delete upnp_thread;
         }
-        upnp_thread = new boost::thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<boost::function<void()> >, "upnp", &ThreadMapPort));
+        upnp_thread = new boost::thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<void (*)()>, "upnp", &ThreadMapPort));
     }
     else if (upnp_thread) {
         upnp_thread->interrupt();
@@ -1800,7 +1797,7 @@ void static Discover()
 
     // Don't use external IPv4 discovery, when -onlynet="IPv6"
     if (!IsLimited(NET_IPV4))
-        NewThread(ThreadGetMyExternalIP, NULL);
+        boost::thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<void (*)()>, "ext-ip", &ThreadGetMyExternalIP));
 }
 
 void StartNode(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
@@ -1823,7 +1820,7 @@ void StartNode(boost::thread_group& threadGroup)
     if (!GetBoolArg("-dnsseed", true))
         printf("DNS seeding disabled\n");
     else
-        threadGroup.create_thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<boost::function<void()> >, "dnsseed", &ThreadDNSAddressSeed));
+        threadGroup.create_thread(boost::bind(&TraceThread<void (*)()>, "dnsseed", &ThreadDNSAddressSeed));
 
 #ifdef USE_UPNP
     // Map ports with UPnP