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Cc: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: kernel thread as real threads..
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Daniel Eischen wrote:

> 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).
> 

Well, for the time being, I can't see why we can't specifically
name kthreads and use the process name for user threads.

Scott