Getting pthread names

[Richard Yao]

It sounds like someone could use that to implement pthread_getname_np(3).

https://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=sysctl&sektion=3&apropos=0&manpath=FreeBSD+11.1-RELEASE+and+Ports

> On Apr 30, 2018, at 9:57 AM, Konstantin Belousov <kib at freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Manuel St?hn 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?
> 
> Not like pthread_getname_np(), but still something.  You can use
> (binary) sysctl kern.proc.pid.<pid> to get struct kinfo_proc for all
> threads.  In the structure, the ki_tdname() member contains the thread
> name as set by pthread_set_name_np(3).
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