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authoravi@google.com <avi@google.com@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2008-08-25 16:22:00 +0000
committeravi@google.com <avi@google.com@0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98>2008-08-25 16:22:00 +0000
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Updated comment in thread naming.
git-svn-id: svn://svn.chromium.org/chrome/trunk/src@1308 0039d316-1c4b-4281-b951-d872f2087c98
-rw-r--r--base/platform_thread_posix.cc7
1 files changed, 6 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/base/platform_thread_posix.cc b/base/platform_thread_posix.cc
index 9d65264..760ce1c 100644
--- a/base/platform_thread_posix.cc
+++ b/base/platform_thread_posix.cc
@@ -54,7 +54,12 @@ void PlatformThread::Sleep(int duration_ms) {
// static
void PlatformThread::SetName(const char* name) {
- // TODO(darin): implement me!
+ // The POSIX standard does not provide for naming threads, and neither Linux
+ // nor Mac OS X (our two POSIX targets) provide any non-portable way of doing
+ // it either. (Some BSDs provide pthread_set_name_np but that isn't much of a
+ // consolation prize.)
+ // TODO(darin): decide whether stuffing the name in TLS or other in-memory
+ // structure would be useful for debugging or not.
}
// static