On Feb 23 21:38, Yaakov (Cygwin/X) wrote: > This patchset adds pthread_getname_np and pthread_setname_np. These > were added to glibc in 2.12[1] and are also present in some form on > NetBSD and several UNIXes. IIUC recent versions of GDB can benefit from > this support.
Thanks for your patch, but I don't think it's the whole thing. Consider, if you implement pthread_[gs]etname_np as you did, then you have pthread names which are only available to the process in which the threads are running. So, how could GDB get the information for its inferior process? Actually GDB reads the thread name using a target specific function which is so far only implemented for Linux. It does not use pthread_getname_np, rather it reads the name from /proc/$PID/task/$TID/comm. And that's a bit of a problem in Cygwin. Every Cygwin process is multi-threaded (think signals), but only the application-started threads are pthreads. So, again, thanks for doing this, but I think this requires more work to be useful. The basic task is to provide /proc/$PID/task for all threads running in a Cygwin process. If that's available, the pthread_[gs]etname_np will become useful and their (different) implementation probably falls into place. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat