From: Martin Quinson <martin.quinson@loria.fr>
Date: Tue, 7 Mar 2017 10:53:52 +0000 (+0100)
Subject: add an easy way to retrieve the name of the current actor
X-Git-Tag: v3_15~208^2
X-Git-Url: http://info.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/pub/gitweb/simgrid.git/commitdiff_plain/a91ed4612675df3eb54e154f6525c3cc96a50b7f?ds=sidebyside

add an easy way to retrieve the name of the current actor
---

diff --git a/include/simgrid/s4u/Actor.hpp b/include/simgrid/s4u/Actor.hpp
index d014ceff7d..0a14c7d089 100644
--- a/include/simgrid/s4u/Actor.hpp
+++ b/include/simgrid/s4u/Actor.hpp
@@ -289,11 +289,14 @@ namespace this_actor {
   */
   XBT_PUBLIC(void) send(MailboxPtr chan, void*payload, size_t simulatedSize);
 
-  /** @brief Return the PID of the current actor. */
+  /** @brief Returns the PID of the current actor. */
   XBT_PUBLIC(int) pid();
 
-  /** @brief Return the PPID of the current actor. */
+  /** @brief Returns the PPID of the current actor. */
   int ppid();
+
+  /** @brief Returns the name of the current actor. */
+  std::string name();
 };
 
 /** @} */
diff --git a/src/s4u/s4u_actor.cpp b/src/s4u/s4u_actor.cpp
index 28833f1faf..257717fec6 100644
--- a/src/s4u/s4u_actor.cpp
+++ b/src/s4u/s4u_actor.cpp
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ int ppid()
   return SIMIX_process_self()->ppid;
 }
 
+std::string name()
+{
+  return SIMIX_process_self()->name;
+}
 }
 }
 }