"beware of the duck!"

[JulianTheRedFox]

I was curious, is it an Easter egg of a process in Vision?

[nephele]

Vision names all it’s thread in a random name, apparently this was a bit common in BeOS days, but it makes debugging harder and Haiku has basically stopped this practice otherwise.

[JulianTheRedFox]

Oh, I see. That is definitely interesting

[PulkoMandy]

@nephele

Vision names all it’s thread in a random name, apparently this was a bit common in BeOS days

Not really, some threads have fun names but are rarely random. As far as I know, only Vision does that, and it still prefixes the threads with a letter indicating what they are, so I don’t see why that would make debugging harder. Would it be easier if all the threads were just named “thread?”

[nephele]

No, but if every app does this it makes it harder than having descriptive names that don’t require prior knowledge

[sgbeal]

@PulkoMandy

As far as I know, only Vision does that, and it still prefixes the threads with a letter indicating what they are, so I don’t see why that would make debugging harder. Would it be easier if all the threads were just named “thread?”

Good thing it’s not done for the app menu:

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