Getting pthread names

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 30/04/2018 21:25, Manuel Stühn wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 04:57:11PM +0300, Konstantin Belousov 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).
> 
> Thank you (all) for your answer(s) and hints! I'll have a look into this.

I asked the same question some time ago, because Ceph also uses this in 
all kinds of analysis. It is/was still on my todo list, but since it is 
only informational, it is not high on priority.

But would be more than interested to test/use an implementation.

--WjW