Message167560
It is indeed the compatibility that is the worse issue. The problem is what people have gotten used to and may have coded their applications to expect/deal with. I agree with you that most people would *not* find it surprising to see the name reflected in the OS, but I don't think the convenience of that is worth introducing a potential backward incompatibility.
On the other hand, I think this might be an appropriate place to use a global control, so that getting thread names out to the OS would require adding just a single line of code to any given application. I know of an application that does this. It chose to implement it as a global change, and that makes sense to me. |
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2012-08-06 13:17:17 | r.david.murray | set | recipients:
+ r.david.murray, jcea, pitrou, christian.heimes, Arfrever, flox, bra |
2012-08-06 13:17:17 | r.david.murray | set | messageid: <1344259037.73.0.380972057463.issue15500@psf.upfronthosting.co.za> |
2012-08-06 13:17:16 | r.david.murray | link | issue15500 messages |
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