The function retrieves the thread name previously set by
pthread_set_name_np(3). The name is cached in the process memory.
Requested by: Willem Jan Withagen <wjw@digiware.nl>
Man page update: Yuri Pankov <yuripv@yuripv.net>
Reviewed by: ian (previous version)
Discussed with: arichardson, bjk (man page)
Sponsored by: The FreeBSD Foundation
MFC after: 2 weeks
Differential revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D16702
Instead of failing with ENAMETOOLONG, which is swallowed by
pthread_set_name_np() anyway, truncate the given name to MAXCOMLEN+1
bytes. This is more likely what the user wants, and saves the
caller from truncating it before the call (which was the only
recourse).
Polish pthread_set_name_np(3) and add a .Xr to thr_set_name(2)
so the user might find the documentation for this behavior.
Reviewed by: jilles
MFC after: 3 days
Sponsored by: Dell EMC
As Garrett points out,
It is no more a debugging interface than setproctitle(3), and has not
been since the name started getting stuffed into the kernel. This
statement may have made sense when the name was only visible in thread
state dumps and the debugger.
PR: threads/158815
Submitted by: wollman@
