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From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] set the thread name
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245181227.16466.3.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90906161214u6624014q3f3dc4e234bdf772@mail.gmail.com>

Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 21:14 +0200 schrieb Bert Wesarg:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 20:39, Stefani Seibold<stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> > Currently it is not easy to identify a thread in linux, because there is
> > no thread name like in some other OS.
> >
> > If there were are thread name then we could extend a kernel segv message
> > and the /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/... entries by a TName value like this:
> prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...) works perfectly here.
> 
Ooops... I did not noticed that this is already implemented. Thats works
perfectly ;-)




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From: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
To: Bert Wesarg <bert.wesarg@googlemail.com>
Cc: linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] set the thread name
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2009 21:40:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1245181227.16466.3.camel@wall-e> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <36ca99e90906161214u6624014q3f3dc4e234bdf772@mail.gmail.com>

Am Dienstag, den 16.06.2009, 21:14 +0200 schrieb Bert Wesarg:
> Hi,
> 
> On Tue, Jun 16, 2009 at 20:39, Stefani Seibold<stefani@seibold.net> wrote:
> > Currently it is not easy to identify a thread in linux, because there is
> > no thread name like in some other OS.
> >
> > If there were are thread name then we could extend a kernel segv message
> > and the /proc/<pid>/task/<tid>/... entries by a TName value like this:
> prctl(PR_SET_NAME, ...) works perfectly here.
> 
Ooops... I did not noticed that this is already implemented. Thats works
perfectly ;-)



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  reply	other threads:[~2009-06-16 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-06-16 18:39 [RFC] set the thread name Stefani Seibold
2009-06-16 18:39 ` Stefani Seibold
2009-06-16 19:14 ` Bert Wesarg
2009-06-16 19:14   ` Bert Wesarg
2009-06-16 19:40   ` Stefani Seibold [this message]
2009-06-16 19:40     ` Stefani Seibold
2009-06-16 19:54   ` Stefani Seibold
2009-06-16 19:54     ` Stefani Seibold
2009-06-17  1:13   ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2009-06-17  1:13     ` KOSAKI Motohiro

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