Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 2/3] Add 'namethreads' suboption to --name

[Michael S. Tsirkin]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 06:09:06PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert wrote:
> * Michael S. Tsirkin (address@hidden) wrote:
> > On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 03:20:38PM +0000, Dr. David Alan Gilbert (git) 
> > wrote:
> > > From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <address@hidden>
> > > 
> > > Add flag storage to qemu-thread-* to store the namethreads flag
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Dr. David Alan Gilbert <address@hidden>
> > 
> > How about a pattern?  threads='vmfoo-%s' and have qemu fill in
> > specific strings for %s.
> 
> The size of the name is limited to 16bytes according to the manpage
> for pthread_setname_sn, so things start to get a bit squashed
> if you try and have a vmname and anything else useful in the one name.
> 
> Dave

I see. Well, as long as it's a debug only flag, I guess that's fine.

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> Dr. David Alan Gilbert / address@hidden / Manchester, UK