My main purpose is to help during debugging, if you pass for example /proc/$PID/task/$TID/…
Please note that the documentation is a bit orderly People are confused. They say
Set the process name for the calling process
But because threads on Linux are lightweight Level Process (LWP), so in this case, a thread is a process.
You can use ps -o cmd or use the following command to view the thread name:
p>
cat /proc/$PID/task/$TID/comm
Or between cat / proc / $PID / task / $TID / stat ():
4223 (kjournald) S 1 1 1 0...
Or from the GDB information thread between double quotes:
* 1 Thread 0x7ffff7fc7700 (LWP 6575) "kjournald" 0x00007ffff78bc30d in nanosleep () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84
Is there a way to set the name of the thread in Linux?
My main purpose is to help during debugging, if you pass e.g. /proc/$PID/task/$TID/…
Use the prctl(2) function with the PR_SET_NAME option (see the docs).
Please note that the documentation is a bit confusing. They say
Set the process name for the calling process
But because the thread on Linux is a lightweight process (LWP), so in this case , A thread is a process.
You can use ps -o cmd or use the following command to view the thread name:
cat /proc/$PID/ task/$TID/comm
Or between cat / proc / $PID / task / $TID / stat ():
4223 ( kjournald) S 1 1 1 0...
Or from the GDB message thread between double quotes:
* 1 Thread 0x7ffff7fc7700 (LWP 6575) "kjournald" 0x00007ffff78bc30d in nanosleep () at ../sysdeps/unix/syscall-template.S:84