On Fri, Jul 10, 2020 at 2:41 PM Thomas Monjalon <[email protected]> wrote: > > 10/07/2020 11:45, David Marchand: > > pthread_setname_np refuses names larger than 16 bytes (\0 included). > > Rather than return an error, truncate the name to this limit in the > > rte_thread_setname helper. > [...] > > --- a/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_thread.c > > +++ b/lib/librte_eal/linux/eal_thread.c > > @@ -153,7 +153,10 @@ int rte_thread_setname(pthread_t id, const char *name) > > int ret = ENOSYS; > > #if defined(__GLIBC__) && defined(__GLIBC_PREREQ) > > #if __GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 12) > > - ret = pthread_setname_np(id, name); > > + char truncated[16]; > > That's a pity POSIX is not defining a constant for this limit.
pthread_setname "_np" :-) -- David Marchand
