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| -rw-r--r-- | base/platform_thread_posix.cc | 7 |
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 |