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authorUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2010-04-09 01:09:24 -0700
committerUlrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>2010-04-09 01:09:24 -0700
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Implement interfaces to set and get names of threads.
At least the Linux kernel provides field where the kernel originally
stores the command which is executed by the thread.  The value can
subsequently be overwritten.  The added functions allow to do that for
threads, providing and abstraction around the syscalls or /proc file
system accesses needed.
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-GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2010-4-8
+GNU C Library NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.  2010-4-9
 Copyright (C) 1992-2009, 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 See the end for copying conditions.
 
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+  11292, 11319, 11332, 11333, 11387, 11389, 11390, 11394, 11397, 11410,
+  11438, 11449, 11470, 11471
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+* New interfaces: pthread_getname_np, pthread_setname_np
 
 * New Linux interface: recvmmsg