Sorry, forgot the ML as CC. I put the ML back on the CC. On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 3:49 PM, ziaudeen <Ziaudeen.Abdulrazak@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi Bert, > > It is the name which I set using the prctl function prctl(PR_SET_NAME,<null > terminated string.,0,0,0). It is successfully setting the name for the > thread. But I don't know how to see the changed thread name using the > command > like ps -eLf or ps H. as the named suggest, prctl(2) is to control a process's attributes. The name is a attribute to the whole process, and can not be set individual per thread. > > Do you suggest something for me to try to see the changed name of each > thread? No, because I think you can not set the name for each thread, at most for the process. Anyway, I'm a little confused, in your first mail, you asked how to set the name for a thread created with pthread_create(3), and now you ask how you can see the changed name of a thread! Bert > > Regards > Ziaudeen > > > > > Bert Wesarg wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 11:50 AM, ziaudeen <Ziaudeen.Abdulrazak@xxxxxxx> > wrote: > > > Hi, > > While creating a pthread using the pthread_create function, Is there any > ways to change/give the name of the thread to our custom names? > > About what name do you talking, the name of the binary, which is shown > in ps/top/...? > > If its some internal name, posix threads have no such thing. > > Bert > > > > Please help me, I am a new bee to linux programming > > Regards > Ziaudeen > > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-c-programming" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
