Add common util to set thread name

[lttng-tools.git] / src / common / error.c

diff --git a/src/common/error.c b/src/common/error.c
index 82190b9fd527cea831f61e9620b43f73d1984c17..11dbc90289806decc6507f11f94727ab9e0476a1 100644 (file)
--- a/src/common/error.c
+++ b/src/common/error.c
@@ -14,6 +14,7 @@
 #include <string.h>
 
 #include <common/common.h>
+#include <common/thread.h>
 #include <common/compat/getenv.h>
 #include <lttng/lttng-error.h>
 
@@ -77,16 +78,9 @@ void logger_set_thread_name(const char *name, bool set_pthread_name)
        URCU_TLS(logger_thread_name) = name;
 
        if (set_pthread_name) {
-               char pthread_name[16];
-
-               /*
-                * Truncations are expected since pthread limits thread names to
-                * a generous 16 characters.
-                */
-               strncpy(pthread_name, name, sizeof(pthread_name));
-               pthread_name[sizeof(pthread_name) - 1] = '\0';
-               ret = pthread_setname_np(pthread_self(), pthread_name);
-               if (ret) {
+               ret = lttng_thread_setname(name);
+               if (ret && ret != -ENOSYS) {
+                       /* Don't fail as this is not essential. */
                        DBG("Failed to set pthread name attribute");
                }
        }