From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2005-08-29T22:37:33+09:00
Subject: Re: Associating a name with a thread?

2005/8/29, Andrew S. Townley <andrew.townley@bearingpoint.com>:
> 
> 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.

I couldn't find exactly what you are looking for, but you can use
thread local variables. So you can do

t = Thread.new do
...
end

t[:name] = "my thread"

HTH

Kind regards

robert