[FFmpeg-devel] [PATCH v2] w32pthreads: add support for setting thread name

Kacper Michajłow kasper93 at gmail.com
Tue Mar 4 17:04:55 EET 2025


Signed-off-by: Kacper Michajłow <kasper93 at gmail.com>
---
 compat/w32pthreads.h | 30 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 libavutil/thread.h   |  2 ++
 2 files changed, 32 insertions(+)

diff --git a/compat/w32pthreads.h b/compat/w32pthreads.h
index fd6428e29f..8d5b4729fa 100644
--- a/compat/w32pthreads.h
+++ b/compat/w32pthreads.h
@@ -44,6 +44,7 @@
 #include "libavutil/internal.h"
 #include "libavutil/mem.h"
 #include "libavutil/time.h"
+#include "libavutil/wchar_filename.h"
 
 typedef struct pthread_t {
     void *handle;
@@ -209,4 +210,33 @@ static inline int pthread_setcancelstate(int state, int *oldstate)
     return 0;
 }
 
+static inline int win32_thread_setname(const char *name)
+{
+    typedef HRESULT (WINAPI *SetThreadDescriptionFn)(HANDLE, PCWSTR);
+    SetThreadDescriptionFn pSetThreadDescription;
+    HRESULT hr;
+    wchar_t *wname;
+
+#if !HAVE_UWP
+    HMODULE kernel32 = GetModuleHandleW(L"kernel32.dll");
+    if (!kernel32)
+        return AVERROR(ENOSYS);
+    pSetThreadDescription = (SetThreadDescriptionFn)
+        GetProcAddress(kernel32, "SetThreadDescription");
+    if (!pSetThreadDescription)
+        return AVERROR(ENOSYS);
+#else
+    WINBASEAPI HRESULT WINAPI
+    SetThreadDescription(HANDLE hThread, PCWSTR lpThreadDescription);
+    pSetThreadDescription = &SetThreadDescription;
+#endif
+
+    if (utf8towchar(name, &wname) < 0)
+        return AVERROR(ENOMEM);
+
+    hr = pSetThreadDescription(GetCurrentThread(), wname);
+    av_free(wname);
+    return SUCCEEDED(hr) ? 0 : AVERROR(EINVAL);
+}
+
 #endif /* COMPAT_W32PTHREADS_H */
diff --git a/libavutil/thread.h b/libavutil/thread.h
index 2c00c7cc35..184e2d8c5f 100644
--- a/libavutil/thread.h
+++ b/libavutil/thread.h
@@ -229,6 +229,8 @@ static inline int ff_thread_setname(const char *name)
 #endif
 #elif HAVE_PTHREAD_SET_NAME_NP
     pthread_set_name_np(pthread_self(), name);
+#elif HAVE_W32THREADS
+    ret = win32_thread_setname(name);
 #else
     ret = AVERROR(ENOSYS);
 #endif
-- 
2.45.1



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