fixes #960 NNG threads inherit application thread name

This also exposes an nng_thread_set_name() function for
applications to use.  All NNG thread names start with "nng:".
Note that support is highly dependent on the operating system.

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/nng/supplemental/util/platform.h b/include/nng/supplemental/util/platform.h
index 87e0305f..feca858a 100644
--- a/include/nng/supplemental/util/platform.h
+++ b/include/nng/supplemental/util/platform.h
@@ -49,6 +49,11 @@ typedef struct nng_thread nng_thread;
 // I/O APIs provided by nng.  The thread runs until completion.
 NNG_DECL int nng_thread_create(nng_thread **, void (*)(void *), void *);
 
+// Set the thread name.  Support for this is platform specific and varies.
+// It is intended to provide information for use when debugging applications,
+// and not for programmatic use beyond that.
+NNG_DECL void nng_thread_set_name(nng_thread *, const char *);
+
 // Destroy a thread (waiting for it to complete.)  When this function
 // returns all resources for the thread are cleaned up.
 NNG_DECL void nng_thread_destroy(nng_thread *);