Getting pthread names

[Richard Yao]

> On Apr 30, 2018, at 7:14 AM, Manuel Stühn <freebsdnewbie at freenet.de> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> for setting a name for pthreads i found pthread_set_name_np(3), but for retrieving the name i found nothing. Is there any api like pthread_getname_np for FreeBSD? Or is there another way to retrieve the threads name within an application?

The only time that I have ever seen the names listed was when attaching gdb to a process on Linux and listing the threads. I have not tried it on FreeBSD. I suggest attaching gdb to see if it displays them. If it works, then you could look into how gdb gets them.

I hope that helps.
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