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33 .Nd set user-visible thread name
39 .Fn thr_set_name "long id" "const char *name"
43 system call sets the user-visible name for the thread with the identifier
45 in the current process to the NUL-terminated string
47 The name will be silently truncated to fit into a buffer of
50 The thread name can be seen in the output of the
54 commands, in the kernel debuggers and kernel tracing facility outputs,
55 and in userland debuggers and program core files, as notes.
59 returns zero; otherwise, \-1 is returned, and
61 is set to indicate the error.
65 system call may return the following errors:
68 The memory pointed to by the
70 argument is not valid.
72 The thread with the identifier
74 does not exist in the current process.
84 .Xr pthread_set_name_np 3 ,
90 system call is non-standard and is used by the
95 system call first appeared in