Ah I recognise you you re Mozilla contributor right ? You re probably right but that was just an example eventhough I admit it s not extremely widely used ...
On 18 July 2017 at 13:36, Landry Breuil <lan...@openbsd.org> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 01:24:21PM +0100, David CARLIER wrote: > > Hi. > > > > I sent a diff originally to a smaller audience but finally decided to > post > > it in the mailing list. > > So it is to introduce the pthread_set_name_np's counterpart so > > pthread_get_name_np. > > Some softwares use it (NSPR for example) and anyway internally in my > > workplace we have multiplatform needing this feature would be nice having > > this for OpenBSD as well :-) > > the js engine uses it: > https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1298451 > > but nspr stopped using it or never used it, there's only a reference to > pthread_set_name_np: > https://hg.mozilla.org/projects/nspr/file/tip/pr/src/ > pthreads/ptthread.c#l1759 > > PR_GetThreadName (just below) returns the 'local' name value, and doesnt > get it from the system. > > Landry > >
