Comment 2 for bug 1052459

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Andrew Johnson (anj) wrote :

The epicsThreadResume command assumes that epicsThreadGetName() will return an empty string when given an invalid thread id. That seems to be a reasonable interpretation as long as the architecture can identify a valid tid, but that isn't how the various versions have been implemented:
 * RTEMS just converts the tid to a string using for format "0x%lx".
 * VxWorks copies whatever taskName() gives back.
 * Posix and Win32 assume it must be valid and copy a string from the relevant member.

I agree with the idea of adding a validator, but implementing it everywhere might need work.

Definitely needs a test in epicsThreadTest.cpp.