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Cc: Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@freebsd.org>,
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Subject: Re: kernel thread as real threads..
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Scott Long wrote:

> 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.


that's what happens with my patches already..

>
> Scott