From 2f792a9c88c44b0decd25a3d6f92c85abe003f2b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Marc Emmers <m.emmers@syrinx.nl>
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2018 11:31:20 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Added get_name function to ThisThread namespace

---
 rtos/ThisThread.cpp | 9 +++++++++
 rtos/ThisThread.h   | 6 ++++++
 2 files changed, 15 insertions(+)

diff --git a/rtos/ThisThread.cpp b/rtos/ThisThread.cpp
index 1ddbfe57ae..0e3b89d431 100644
--- a/rtos/ThisThread.cpp
+++ b/rtos/ThisThread.cpp
@@ -138,4 +138,13 @@ osThreadId_t ThisThread::get_id()
     return osThreadGetId();
 }
 
+const char *get_name()
+{
+    osThreadId_t id = osThreadGetId();
+    if (id == NULL) {
+        return NULL;
+    }
+    return osThreadGetName(id);
+}
+
 }
diff --git a/rtos/ThisThread.h b/rtos/ThisThread.h
index c0104fc1e0..33a2036e0b 100644
--- a/rtos/ThisThread.h
+++ b/rtos/ThisThread.h
@@ -179,6 +179,12 @@ void yield();
 */
 osThreadId_t get_id();
 
+/** Get the thread name of the current running thread.
+  @return  thread name pointer or NULL if thread has no name or in case of error.
+  @note You cannot call this function from ISR context.
+*/
+const char *get_name();
+
 };
 /** @}*/
 /** @}*/