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From: jtc@acorntoolworks.com (J.T. Conklin)
To: karen.osmond@gmail.com
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] Allow GDB to display user-defined thread names
Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:52:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tz2whrfy.fsf@orac.acorntoolworks.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0906041721010.32368@localhost.localdomain> (Karen  Osmond's message of "Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:43:14 +0100 (BST)")

Karen Osmond <karen.osmond@gmail.com> writes:
> So, if this is of interest, I'd like to spend the time to improve it but 
> if anybody has time, it would be of great help if a gdb bod could 
> volunteer to mentor me a bit... please? :)

Some systems have names that can be set programmatically w/
pthread_attr_setname() or pthread_attr_setname_np().  On such systems,
it might be useful for GDB's initial thread name be inherited from the
target.

    --jtc

-- 
J.T. Conklin


  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-04 16:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-04 16:43 Karen Osmond
2009-06-04 16:52 ` J.T. Conklin [this message]
2009-06-05 22:29 ` Tom Tromey
2009-06-05 22:43   ` Paul Pluzhnikov
2009-06-08 14:24   ` Karen Osmond

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