Method: Thread#name=

Defined in:
thread.c

#name=(name) ⇒ String

set given name to the ruby thread. On some platform, it may set the name to pthread and/or kernel.

Returns:



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# File 'thread.c', line 3466

static VALUE
rb_thread_setname(VALUE thread, VALUE name)
{
    rb_thread_t *target_th = rb_thread_ptr(thread);

    if (!NIL_P(name)) {
        rb_encoding *enc;
        StringValueCStr(name);
        enc = rb_enc_get(name);
        if (!rb_enc_asciicompat(enc)) {
            rb_raise(rb_eArgError, "ASCII incompatible encoding (%s)",
                     rb_enc_name(enc));
        }
        name = rb_str_new_frozen(name);
    }
    target_th->name = name;
    if (threadptr_initialized(target_th) && target_th->has_dedicated_nt) {
        native_set_another_thread_name(target_th->nt->thread_id, name);
    }
    return name;
}