From: "Andrew S. Townley" <andrew.townley@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T22:19:55+09:00
Subject: Associating a name with a thread?


Hi.  Me again.

I'm doing some research/work using threads with ruby.  I saw this in the
ri docs for Thread#inspect:

--------------------------------------------------------- Thread#inspect
     thr.inspect   => string
------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Dump the name, id, and status of _thr_ to a string.

And was wondering how you assign a meaningful name to a thread.  Right
now, I have about 2X as many threads created as I would've thought
(using Thread.list.length).  Desk-checking the code doesn't show
anything obvious, but I have instrumented it to the point that I have
output with the Thread information, e.g.

#<Thread:0xb7f94e94>: doing something

But, what I want is to be able to do something like

task1 = Thread.new("task1") { ... }

or at least

task1 = Thread.new { ... }
task1.name = "task1"

to get it to show up during execution.

Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way.  Any pointers in the right
direction would be appreciated.

Cheers,

ast

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