[vlc-devel] [PATCH 1/4] thread: add a function to give names to threads

Steve Lhomme robux4 at ycbcr.xyz
Tue Nov 10 10:42:01 CET 2020


On 2020-11-10 10:39, Thomas Guillem wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> Cool feature that will help us a lot.
> 
> Could we set the name of the thread from the vlc_clone function() instead?

It could be an addition. But it should always be possible to set it 
afterwards. In particular for the all the tasks that will go through the 
executor it would be good if they can set their own fancy name.

> On Mon, Nov 9, 2020, at 17:09, Jean-Baptiste Kempf wrote:
>> On Mon, 9 Nov 2020, at 16:01, RĂ©mi Denis-Courmont wrote:
>>> Missing casts.
>>>
>>> This is limited to 15 characters, so the way you picked the names in the
>>> following patches is not going to work very well.
>>
>> Maybe the Doxygen should mention that, then?
>>
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