NAME

_lwp_setname — set descriptive name of an LWP

LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

SYNOPSIS

#include <lwp.h>

int
_lwp_setname(lwpid_t target, const char *name);

DESCRIPTION

_lwp_setname() sets the descriptive name of the LWP. It takes the following arguments.

target

The LWP whose descriptive name will be set.

name

The string to be used as the descriptive name of the LWP.

The name is used by top(1) when showing LWPs, for example.

RETURN VALUES

The _lwp_setname() function returns the value 0 if successful; otherwise the value -1 is returned and the global variable errno is set to indicate the error.

SEE ALSO

ps(1), top(1), _lwp_getname(2), errno(2)