[Ace-users] [ace-users] Task name in VxWorks

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

The changes for this have been made and will be part of the upcoming x.6.2
release of ACE/TAO

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
Postbus 101
2650 AC  Berkel en Rodenrijs
The Netherlands
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>     ACE VERSION: 5.5
> 
>     HOST MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM:
>         WindowsXP , SP2
>         Winsock2
> 		
> 
>     TARGET MACHINE and OPERATING SYSTEM, 
> 		PPC , VxWorks 5.5/ Tornado 2.2.1
>     COMPILER NAME AND VERSION (AND PATCHLEVEL): gcc 2.96
> 
>     CONTENTS OF $ACE_ROOT/ace/config.h 
> 	config-vxworks5.x
> 
>     CONTENTS OF $ACE_ROOT/include/makeinclude/platform_macros.GNU
> (unless
>     this isn't used in this case, e.g., with Microsoft Visual C++):
>     
>     AREA/CLASS/EXAMPLE AFFECTED:
> 	None
> 
>     DOES THE PROBLEM AFFECT:
>         OTHER (please specify)?
> 	Task name in VxWorks
> 
>     SYNOPSIS:
> [Brief description of the problem]
> 
>     DESCRIPTION:
> 	How I can define task ( thread ) name during creation in
> VxWorks?
>  
> 	I succeded to give task name using ACE_thread_t argument in
> spawn  function.
>  
>  	But my code runs on VxWorks and Windows XP and I didn't find
> cross
>           platform way ( without using #ifdef VXWORKS ) to solve this
> problem
> 
>     SAMPLE FIX/WORKAROUND:
> 
>  	std::string thread_name("My Thread") ;
>  
>  	char*  p_thread_name = (char*)thread_name.c_str() ;
>  
>  	ACE_Thread_Manager::instance()->spawn ( 
>  	                ACE_THR_FUNC( server) ,
> 	                       reinterpret_cast<void*>(thread_arg) ,
>  	                       THR_NEW_LWP | THR_DEAMON 
>  
>  	#ifdef VXWORKS
>  
>  	                | VX_FP_TASK , &p_thread_name
>  
>  	#endif
>  
>  	                ) ;
>  
>  
>  	In this way thread_name and p_thread_name is unused variables in
> Windows XP.
>  
>  	May be somebody can advise portable solution?
>  
> 
> 
> 
> Alexander Kordonsky
> 
> Senior Software Engineer
> Elbit System Group
> e-mail : alex_k at elbit.co.il
> tel      : 972-4-831-62-29
> mobile: 972-54-999-62-29
> 
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