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

[Rémi Denis-Courmont]

Le tiistaina 10. marraskuuta 2020, 11.39.19 EET Thomas Guillem a écrit :
> Hello,
> 
> Cool feature that will help us a lot.
> 
> Could we set the name of the thread from the vlc_clone function() instead?

There are 3 ways to expose this:
- as a parameter to vlc_clone(),
- as a function to set the calling thread name,
- as a function to set a current process' thread name.

It depends if you want flexibility for the implementation or the usage.

Unless there's a platform that requires passing the name while creating the 
thread, I don't see the benefit of the first approach.

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