On Wednesday, August 21, 2013 12:36:09 pm Laurie Jennings wrote: > Im trying to set the names of threads so I can distinguish them in top -H, but it doesn't seem to > take the thread id as valid. > > err=pthread_set_name_np(pthread_self(),"FOO"); This function returns void, not an error, so you can't trust the return value. -- John Baldwin