Set a thread name for spawned task

[manio]

Hi. Standard threads can be named (https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/thread/#configuring-threads) which is very handy especially when monitoring (eg using htop) because every single thread can be named and monitored individually.
I miss something similar when doing task::spawn for a tokio async task.
Is it currently possible to set a name for the thread somehow? Am I missing something?

I know that I can set it for the whole pool when creating runtime with .thread_name("my-custom-name") but this can't be used for a individual task.

[Darksonn]

Tokio does not spawn a new thread for every task, so the name of a thread cannot be task-specific.

[manio]

@Darksonn I meant this for threaded_scheduler() only

[Darksonn]

The threaded scheduler doesn't spawn a new thread for every task either.

[wangjia184]

is it possible to set a name for the task so that the task name is visible in https://github.com/tokio-rs/console >?

[mox692]

I think you could use task::Builder::name.