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From: Ferruh Yigit <ferruh.yigit@intel.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] eal: fix compile error for old
	glibc	caused by pthread_setname_np()
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2015 11:24:40 +0000
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On Wed, Nov 25, 2015 at 12:18:02PM +0100, Thomas Monjalon wrote:
> 2015-11-25 11:13, Ferruh Yigit:
> > +/**
> > + * Set thread names.
> > + *
> > + * Macro to wrap `pthread_setname_np()` with a glibc version check.
> > + * Only glibc >= 2.12 supports this feature.
> > + *
> > + * This macro only used for Linux, BSD does direct libc call.
> > + * BSD libc version of function is `pthread_set_name_np()`.
> > + */
> > +#if defined(__DOXYGEN__)
> > +#define rte_thread_setname(...) pthread_setname_np(__VA_ARGS__)
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#if defined(__GLIBC__) && defined(__GLIBC_PREREQ)
> > +#if __GLIBC_PREREQ(2, 12)
> > +#define rte_thread_setname(...) pthread_setname_np(__VA_ARGS__)
> > +#else
> > +#define rte_thread_setname(...) 0
> > +#endif
> > +#endif
> 
> OK it is a first (and important) fix.
> EAL is an abstraction for Linux and FreeBSD, so ideally another patch would
> make rte_thread_setname working for BSD too.

I wasn't sure to do that update, since BSD has nothing with glibc versions.
Do you want me amend this patch to update BSD usage to rte_thread_setname?

thanks,
ferruh