From: Eric Hodel <drbrain@...7.net>
Date: 2005-08-30T02:58:46+09:00
Subject: Re: Associating a name with a thread?

On 29 Aug 2005, at 06:50, Andrew S. Townley wrote:

>
> Hi Robert & Logan,
>
> This tells me that I've created as many threads as I expect, however
> there are still a large number of threads that are created elsewhere
> that don't have names.  I suppose this is the wrong approach because I
> really want to know who created them and where.  I guess I'll run the
> whole thing with trace and see what I get.

You really want to use ThreadGroups to organize your threads.

A thread that spawns new threads will add them to whichever  
ThreadGroup it is in.  You can monitor the ThreadGroup's size to  
figure out who is spawning the new threads.

> I had hoped I wasn't missing anything obvious.  Question though:  if I
> re-open the Thread class to add a name attribute, does that apply to
> all, pre-existing threads or just new ones?  There are 2 others that I
> know about, but...

All.

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