[Interest] A QThread question...

[Bo Thorsen]

Den 21-10-2015 kl. 11:48 skrev NoMercy:
> Hello everyone and thanks for you replies,
>
> I've a rather advaced question about QThreads (well advanced to my
> knowledge anyways)
>
> I have a Windows service that runs under System user (naturally) but I
> want to create and run a thread from within that service and change the
> token of that thread so it runs in user evironment.
>
> and to do so, I thought of something like this;
> get QThread::currentThreadId -- Documentation says do not use it but?
> get handle of that thread by OpenThread(threadID)
> and use SetThreadToken to move thread to user space.
>
> I'm using 4.8.6 btw
>
> do you think it is possible?
> is this approach safe?
> would it be stable?
> any possible implications?
> if it works, would my main thread can still comunicate through
> signals/slots?

If you are going to do native stuff to the threads, then I think you 
would be wise to create the thread with the native windows calls for it 
instead of trying to bend a QThread to the rules.

The whole notion of threads running as a separate user feels like such a 
dirty solution anyway, and QThread might muddy the waters even more. For 
example, signal from one user thread to a slot in a thread running as 
another user... It just gets weird.

Keep it simple, create the thread yourself and separate this completely.

Bo Thorsen,
Director, Viking Software.

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