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authorSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2014-10-10 14:26:19 +0100
committerSimon Marlow <marlowsd@gmail.com>2014-10-10 14:31:59 +0100
commit674c631ea111233daa929ef63500d75ba0db8858 (patch)
treedb42f94960c86876b73785f2c1946aeff871308e /rts/Task.c
parentd3f56ec6a6ead847233fee5dfad7979c2d63fc3d (diff)
downloadhaskell-674c631ea111233daa929ef63500d75ba0db8858.tar.gz
Name worker threads using pthread_setname_np
This helps identify threads in gdb particularly in processes with a lot of threads.
Diffstat (limited to 'rts/Task.c')
-rw-r--r--rts/Task.c2
1 files changed, 1 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/rts/Task.c b/rts/Task.c
index 0370711692..42893fe903 100644
--- a/rts/Task.c
+++ b/rts/Task.c
@@ -462,7 +462,7 @@ startWorkerTask (Capability *cap)
ASSERT_LOCK_HELD(&cap->lock);
cap->running_task = task;
- r = createOSThread(&tid, (OSThreadProc*)workerStart, task);
+ r = createOSThread(&tid, "ghc_worker", (OSThreadProc*)workerStart, task);
if (r != 0) {
sysErrorBelch("failed to create OS thread");
stg_exit(EXIT_FAILURE);