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Robert Watson wrote:

> I've CC'd John, who might have views on what we should do about this. 
> It would be nice if we had a way to export information on all the
> interrupt event sources, including soft ones, and their mappings to
> ithreads, including swis, using sysctl.  Or maybe we do already and
> he'll point us at it. :-)

How about, for starts, the truncating loop gets overriden / replaced for
ithread process names?