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

[Johnny Willemsen]

Hi,

Thanks for using the PRF form. There is not a portable way to do this. When
you use vxworks with pthread support the code below will not work. VxWorks
does have a specific API to set the task name, maybe we could add that to
the ACE thread wrappers. You must always make sure you don't get multiple
tasks with the same name! 

Regards,

Johnny Willemsen
Remedy IT
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"Kordonsky Alex" <alex_k at elbit.co.il> wrote in message
news:<mailman.2479.1191825254.5286.ace-users at mail.cse.wustl.edu>...
    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
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