Re: Thread names in gdb7.7(using info threads command)

On 08/19/2014 04:43 PM, Pedro Alves wrote:
> On 07/17/2014 06:07 PM, Sreejith M M wrote:
> 
>> I am trying to see thread names in gdb. Thread names are  defined with
>>
>>   prctl (PR_SET_NAME, "Mythread2", 0, 0, 0); //MyThread2 is my thread name
>>
> 
> ...
> 
>> the thread name after the application generates a core dump when I
>> load core file using core-file command.
> 
>> I would like to understand how I can see the thread names when from
>> the core file generated by the application
> 
> Unfortunately, I don't think this information is stored anywhere in the
> core dump.

Or maybe it is, in NT_PRPSINFO / prpsinfo->pr_fname ?  In that case,
all we'd need is a gdb patch to make use of it.  See the
target_thread_name target method.  We'd need an implementation in
corelow.c.

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Thanks,
Pedro Alves