Re: [RFC] named thread support

Daniel Jacobowitz
2005-10-09T20:40:22Z

On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:21:39 -0400
> > From: Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org>
> >
> > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:40:22PM -0400, Kris Warkentin wrote:
> > > Would it be of interest to have a generic 'set threadname <tid> <name>'
> > > that called a target_set_threadname()? I ask because we're implementing
> > > named threads in our kernel but I don't know if many other systems
> > > support this. I can always add it to our backend but if someone else
> > > might use it in the future, I can make it general.
> >
> > So by named thread support, you mean that the application can register
> > the name of the thread with the kernel? And you want GDB to be able to
> > set thread names?
> >
> > I recommend doing this in your backend, since I don't know any other
> > gdb-supported system with a similar feature.
>
> I think HP-UX allows you to do the same thing, and many user-space
> threads implementations allow you to do something very similar.

Well then :-)

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