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From: Konstantin Belousov <kib@freebsd.org>
To: Manuel St?hn <freebsdnewbie@freenet.de>
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Subject: Re: Getting pthread names
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2018 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Manuel St?hn wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> for setting a name for pthreads i found pthread_set_name_np(3), but for 
> retrieving the name i found nothing. Is there any api like 
> pthread_getname_np for FreeBSD? Or is there another way to retrieve the 
> threads name within an application?

Not like pthread_getname_np(), but still something.  You can use
(binary) sysctl kern.proc.pid.<pid> to get struct kinfo_proc for all
threads.  In the structure, the ki_tdname() member contains the thread
name as set by pthread_set_name_np(3).