std::thread - naming your thread
c++, c++11, multithreading
Solution
A portable way to do this is to maintain a map of names, keyed by the thread's ID, obtained from `thread::get_id()`. Alternatively, as suggested in the comments, you could use a `thread_local` variable, if you only need to access the name from within the thread.
If you didn't need portability, then you could get the underlying `pthread_t` from `thread::native_handle()` and do whatever platform-specific shenanigans you like with that. Be aware that the `_np` on the thread naming functions means "not posix", so they aren't guaranteed to be available on all pthreads implementations.
Problem
The new C++ has this std::thread type. Works like a charm. Now I would like to give each thread a name for more easy debugging (like java allows you to). With pthreads I would do: ``` pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), "thread_name"); ``` but how can I do this with c++0x? I know it uses pthreads underneath on Linux systems, but I would like to make my application portable. Is it possible at all?