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I think the pthread_set_name_np(3) function is for debugging (reporting) 
purposes.

The names show up when you use 'procstat', 'top', 'ps', etc.

If you want to give a thread a name and use that name later in code why 
not keep that internally in you thread management structures/code and 
use that same name in the call to pthread_set_name_np?

ManiaC++
Jan Knepper



On 04/30/2018 07:14, Manuel Stühn wrote:
> Hi,
>
> for setting a name for pthreads i found pthread_set_name_np(3), but 
> for retrieving the name i found nothing. Is there any api like 
> pthread_getname_np for FreeBSD? Or is there another way to retrieve 
> the threads name within an application?
>
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