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Return the platform specific identifier associated with the thread specified by `threadHandle`. Note that the returned native handle may not be a globally unique identifier for the thread (see `selfIdAsUint`).

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadutilimpl_pthread.h>`

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nativeHandle(xref:BloombergLP/bslmt/ThreadUtilImpl-04/Handle.adoc[Handle] const& threadHandle);
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