type , etc.

traits_type? maybe..? I don't know

or rather
what Inside said.

templates are a dark dark magic to me

except the I don't know

oh wait, sorry I'm already trying what Inside suggested
you can't use `class typename` can you?

you can't, I was confused

it's ok. I just tried anyway. :p

i have a process that needs to run in near real-time, though would like to capture some information from it to store in a DB

ok

it seems obvious that you need typename in the friend declaration, but GCC won't have it

what do you mean "near real-time
"

i image the DB inserts and queries would be slow, so would a separate thread do this?
can you set the priority on threads?

Sort of.
Depends on the operating system.

linux

Use boost