[gst-devel] thread id in debugging

[Thomas Vander Stichele]

Hi all,

I had to debug some threading issues, and the lack of having something
in the debug log that could tell me what thread it was from was
painful.  I put a print of g_thread_self in the debug handler.

I took a look at g_thread_self and it seems to me that, with a global
variable for the total thread count, and thread-specific data with
g_private_get/set for the current thread counter, I can easily implement
something like we used to have that prints process and thread id, where
thread id starts at 0 (for main thread) and each new thread
automatically gets a thread id from the debug handler if it didn't have
one yet.

What do you think ?

Thomas