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Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 17:01:00 -0000
From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Inadvertently run inferior threads
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> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:23:40 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <palves@redhat.com>
> CC: gdb@sourceware.org
> 
> >> It's the thread name, which defaults to the binary's file name name,
> >> which was "start-thread-infcall", but Linux trims it to 15 or so
> >> characters, IIRC.  For this to work, you need to implement the
> >> target_thread_name hook.  AFAICS, only linux-nat.c implements this.
> > 
> > Well, Windows threads don't really have names, AFAIK.
> 
> Last I looked, Visual Studio does support that.  It's based on a
> funny hack:
> 
>  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xcb2z8hs.aspx

That's only for viewing thread names in a debugger.  Is that what
target_thread_name hook does?