kernel thread as real threads..

Daniel Eischen deischen at freebsd.org
Fri Jan 20 11:58:41 PST 2006


On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Scott Long wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006, Scott Long wrote:
> >
> >>Does pthreads allow the programmer to name threads in a user and/or
> >>kernel visible way?  Is this something that is really all that
> >>important?
> >
> >
> > Only in a non-portable way.  See pthread_set_name_np(3).
> >
>
> Well, for the time being, I can't see why we can't specifically
> name kthreads and use the process name for user threads.

I think that makes more sense anyway.

-- 
DE



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