From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 30455 invoked by alias); 9 Oct 2005 20:40:22 -0000 Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sources.redhat.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sources.redhat.com Received: (qmail 30445 invoked by uid 22791); 9 Oct 2005 20:40:20 -0000 Received: from nevyn.them.org (HELO nevyn.them.org) (66.93.172.17) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.30-dev) with ESMTP; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:40:20 +0000 Received: from drow by nevyn.them.org with local (Exim 4.52) id 1EOhxs-0002Fv-4K; Sun, 09 Oct 2005 16:40:12 -0400 Date: Sun, 09 Oct 2005 20:40:00 -0000 From: Daniel Jacobowitz To: Mark Kettenis Cc: kewarken@qnx.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com Subject: Re: [RFC] named thread support Message-ID: <20051009204012.GA8620@nevyn.them.org> Mail-Followup-To: Mark Kettenis , kewarken@qnx.com, gdb@sources.redhat.com References: <4342B076.3000709@qnx.com> <20051006012139.GA21277@nevyn.them.org> <200510092034.j99KYffG008327@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200510092034.j99KYffG008327@elgar.sibelius.xs4all.nl> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.8i X-SW-Source: 2005-10/txt/msg00060.txt.bz2 On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 10:34:41PM +0200, Mark Kettenis wrote: > > Date: Wed, 5 Oct 2005 21:21:39 -0400 > > From: Daniel Jacobowitz > > > > On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 12:40:22PM -0400, Kris Warkentin wrote: > > > Would it be of interest to have a generic 'set threadname ' > > > that called a target_set_threadname()? I ask because we're implementing > > > named threads in our kernel but I don't know if many other systems > > > support this. I can always add it to our backend but if someone else > > > might use it in the future, I can make it general. > > > > So by named thread support, you mean that the application can register > > the name of the thread with the kernel? And you want GDB to be able to > > set thread names? > > > > I recommend doing this in your backend, since I don't know any other > > gdb-supported system with a similar feature. > > I think HP-UX allows you to do the same thing, and many user-space > threads implementations allow you to do something very similar. Well then :-) -- Daniel Jacobowitz CodeSourcery, LLC