From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 14439 invoked by alias); 4 Jun 2009 16:52:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 14430 invoked by uid 22791); 4 Jun 2009 16:52:45 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.8 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,FH_HOST_EQ_PACBELL_D,RDNS_DYNAMIC X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from adsl-66-123-74-10.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net (HELO orac.acorntoolworks.com) (66.123.74.10) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:52:37 +0000 Received: from orac.acorntoolworks.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by orac.acorntoolworks.com (8.13.3/8.12.11) with ESMTP id n54GqXQS018571; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:52:33 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from jtc@localhost) by orac.acorntoolworks.com (8.13.3/8.12.11) id n54GqXNU005373; Thu, 4 Jun 2009 09:52:33 -0700 (PDT) To: karen.osmond@gmail.com Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org Subject: Re: [rfc][patch] Allow GDB to display user-defined thread names Reply-To: jtc@acorntoolworks.com References: From: jtc@acorntoolworks.com (J.T. Conklin) Date: Thu, 04 Jun 2009 16:52:00 -0000 In-Reply-To: (Karen Osmond's message of "Thu, 4 Jun 2009 17:43:14 +0100 (BST)") Message-ID: <87tz2whrfy.fsf@orac.acorntoolworks.com> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Jumbo Shrimp, berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-patches-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-patches-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-06/txt/msg00074.txt.bz2 Karen Osmond 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