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Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>,
	Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>, current@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: kernel thread as real threads..
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On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Scott Long wrote:
>
> Does pthreads allow the programmer to name threads in a user and/or
> kernel visible way?  Is this something that is really all that
> important?

Only in a non-portable way.  See pthread_set_name_np(3).

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DE