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How to name a thread in Linux? [duplicate]

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I have a multithreaded Linux application written in C/C++. I have chosen names for my threads. To aid debugging, I would like these names to be visible in GDB, "top", etc. Is this possible, and if so how?

(There are plenty of reasons to know the thread name. Right now I want to know which thread is taking up 50% CPU (as reported by 'top'). And when debugging I often need to switch to a different thread - currently I have to do "thread apply all bt" then look through pages of backtrace output to find the right thread).

The Windows solution is here; what's the Linux one?

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user9876 Avatar asked Apr 22 '09 16:04

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Posix Threads?

This evidently won't compile, but it will give you an idea of where to go hunting. I'm not even sure its the right PR_ command, but i think it is. It's been a while...

  #include <sys/prctl.h>   prctl(PR_SET_NAME,"<null> terminated string",0,0,0)
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Fusspawn Avatar answered Sep 21 '22 15:09

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If you are using a library like ACE the Thread has a way to specify the thread name when creating a new thread.

BSD Unix has also a pthread_set_name_np call.

Otherwise you can use prctl as mentioned by Fusspawn.

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lothar Avatar answered Sep 18 '22 15:09

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