add Thread.name and Thread.name= docs Feature #11251 [ci skip]

git-svn-id: svn+ssh://ci.ruby-lang.org/ruby/trunk@50868 b2dd03c8-39d4-4d8f-98ff-823fe69b080e

3 files changed, 7 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 4e2d7bee39..d530af9bff 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Sat Jun 13 17:35:11 2015  NARUSE, Yui  <naruse@ruby-lang.org>
 
 	* vm.c (th_init): initialize th->name.
 
-	* thread.c (Init_Thread): add Thread.name and Thread.name=.
+	* thread.c (Init_Thread): add Thread.name and name=. [Feature #11251]
 
 	* thread.c (rb_thread_inspect): show thread's name if set.
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index cf10aae797..eefdd005d2 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@ with all sufficient information, see the ChangeLog file.
 * pack/unpack (Array/String)
   * j and J directives for pointer width integer type.  [Feature #11215]
 
+* Thread
+  * Thread#name, Thread#name are added to handle thread names [Feature #11251]
+
 
 === Stdlib updates (outstanding ones only)
 
diff --git a/thread.c b/thread.c
index 5218ba7262..e59727a506 100644
--- a/thread.c
+++ b/thread.c
@@ -2719,7 +2719,7 @@ rb_thread_safe_level(VALUE thread)
  * call-seq:
  *   thr.name   -> string
  *
- * Dump the name, id, and status of _thr_ to a string.
+ * show the name of the thread.
  */
 
 static VALUE
@@ -2734,7 +2734,8 @@ rb_thread_getname(VALUE thread)
  * call-seq:
  *   thr.name=(name)   -> string
  *
- * Dump the name, id, and status of _thr_ to a string.
+ * set given name to the ruby thread.
+ * On some platform, it may set the name to pthread and/or kernel.
  */
 
 static VALUE