Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] qemu-thread-posix: Fix build against older glibc version

["Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <dgilbert@redhat.com>]

* Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> On 11 March 2014 16:13, Dr. David Alan Gilbert <dgilbert@redhat.com> wrote:
> > * Peter Maydell (peter.maydell@linaro.org) wrote:
> >> Can we have a configure test for the function instead, please?
> >> We don't generally do tests for specific glibc versions
> >> (among other things, glibc is not the only C library we
> >> might be compiled against -- consider MacOSX, the BSDs,
> >> and occasionally somebody tries to compile against one
> >> of the embedded libcs).
> >
> > Except pthread_setname_np is not portable and was previously
> > ifdef'd _GNU_SOURCE anyway
> 
> I still think it's a generally worse way to do checks.
> We currently have only one check against __GLIBC_MINOR__
> in the tree (and that's in extremely Linux-specific
> code).
> 
> > the parameters on other OSs
> > maybe different (freebsd has got a 3rd parameter for no
> > apparent reason).
> 
> This rather suggests we should abstract the "set thread
> name" functionality out into its own function so we
> can easily provide other implementations for those
> other OSes later.

OK, well there is already a

void os_set_proc_name(const char *s)

in os-posix.c but it has ~2 problems:
  1) If the OS doesn't support doing it that way it exit(1)'s
  2) it uses prctl to set it on the current thread, where
     pthread_setname_np has the advantage that it sets it on
     something you have a pthread* for.
  3) There isn't a matching entry in os-win32.c

is the best thing to add another function to os-posix and os-win
then?

Dave
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Dr. David Alan Gilbert / dgilbert@redhat.com / Manchester, UK