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A customer question on Thread.Name

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A query was raised by Ilya Ryzhenkov on Thread.Name:
"What's the reason of Thread.Name property be write-once?"
Ilya, the response I got was from Chris Brumme, an architect on the CLR team. Chris points out that if you care about the name of your thread, it's worthless unless it's stable. In which case, the creator of the thread gets to make the call: do I care, or not? If you do you give it a name, and no-one else is allowed to do anything after that, in order to ensure it's stability and consistency.

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  • Anonymous
    November 25, 2003
    Yes but if you want to reuse a thread to do different kind of job (à la ThreadPool) it can be great to be able to modify its name.
  • Anonymous
    June 10, 2008
    Pour des besoins de diagnostic, il est parfois bien pratique de donner un nom aux threads, quand ils