Setting native OS thread name (eg, via prctl)

2015-12-22 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
I have this trivial code where the main thread clones a child thread. import std.stdio; import core.thread; import std.concurrency; class DerivedThread : Thread { this() { super(&run); } void quit() { _quit = true; } private: void setOSThreadName()

Re: Setting native OS thread name (eg, via prctl)

2015-12-22 Thread Dejan Lekic via Digitalmars-d-learn
Arun, isn't that what the 'name' property is there for?

Re: Setting native OS thread name (eg, via prctl)

2015-12-22 Thread Arun Chandrasekaran via Digitalmars-d-learn
On Tuesday, 22 December 2015 at 16:08:01 UTC, Dejan Lekic wrote: Arun, isn't that what the 'name' property is there for? Hi Dejan, Thanks for a quick reply. Setting the name property is not reflecting in the OS level. May be it is just used only at the object level? After setting the threa