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Date:      Wed, 2 May 2018 10:38:55 +0800
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@freebsd.org>
To:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>, Manuel St?hn <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Getting pthread names
Message-ID:  <44e3f0c6-0397-404b-3fb9-a67e7f592024@freebsd.org>
In-Reply-To: <20180430135711.GT6887@kib.kiev.ua>
References:  <20180430111434.GA18085@freebsd-t450.fritz.box> <20180430135711.GT6887@kib.kiev.ua>

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On 30/4/18 9:57 pm, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Manuel St?hn 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?
> Not like pthread_getname_np(), but still something.  You can use
> (binary) sysctl kern.proc.pid.<pid> to get struct kinfo_proc for all
> threads.  In the structure, the ki_tdname() member contains the thread
> name as set by pthread_set_name_np(3).
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and ps in the kernel debugger shows it as well from memory

check top and ps in "show thread" mode.... at one stage I remember 
writing code to show thread names

but I can't remember what programs it went into..  (around 2001),


I suspect that you are expected to remember your own name. the name 
writing is so other processes can get that information.




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