Re: Inadvertently run inferior threads

Eli Zaretskii <[email protected]> Sat, 14 Mar 2015 19:01:23 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.gdb.devel
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> Date: Sat, 14 Mar 2015 16:23:40 +0000
> From: Pedro Alves <[email protected]>
> CC: [email protected]
> 
> >> It's the thread name, which defaults to the binary's file name name,
> >> which was "start-thread-infcall", but Linux trims it to 15 or so
> >> characters, IIRC.  For this to work, you need to implement the
> >> target_thread_name hook.  AFAICS, only linux-nat.c implements this.
> > 
> > Well, Windows threads don't really have names, AFAIK.
> 
> Last I looked, Visual Studio does support that.  It's based on a
> funny hack:
> 
>  https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/xcb2z8hs.aspx

That's only for viewing thread names in a debugger.  Is that what
target_thread_name hook does?