Re: [boost] [thread] API for getting/setting thread name in Boost?

Subject: Re: [boost] [thread] API for getting/setting thread name in Boost?
From: Vicente J. Botet Escriba (vicente.botet_at_[hidden])
Date: 2016-05-10 02:35:05

Le 10/05/2016 à 01:57, Bob Summerwill a écrit :
> Issue logged as https://github.com/boostorg/thread/issues/84.   Thanks!

Hi Bob,

What I have in mind was to use the boost::thread_attributes, but we are 
unable to do it in OSX as the set name in OSX sets the name of the 
current thread :(
After some thought I believe we could do it by using a trampoline that 
will do the setting before calling the user main thread function, but 
this is more complex and needs to store the name in the thread_data context.

IIUC, what you are proposing and the single thing that could be done in 
an almost portable way and easily is to define two non-member functions 
to set and get the thread name on namespace this_thread or any other. Is 
this what you are proposing? If this is the case, this functionality can 
be developed completely independently of Boost.Thread, isn't' it?

Best,
Vicente