Implement interfaces to set and get names of threads.
[glibc.git] / nptl / sysdeps / unix / sysv / linux / pthread_setname.c
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1 /* pthread_setname_np -- Set thread name. Linux version
2 Copyright (C) 2010 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
3 This file is part of the GNU C Library.
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20 #include <errno.h>
21 #include <fcntl.h>
22 #include <pthreadP.h>
23 #include <stdio.h>
24 #include <string.h>
25 #include <unistd.h>
26 #include <sys/prctl.h>
28 #include <not-cancel.h>
31 int
32 pthread_setname_np (th, name)
33 pthread_t th;
34 const char *name;
36 const struct pthread *pd = (const struct pthread *) th;
38 /* Unfortunately the kernel headers do not export the TASK_COMM_LEN
39 macro. So we have to define it here. */
40 #define TASK_COMM_LEN 16
41 size_t name_len = strlen (name);
42 if (name_len >= TASK_COMM_LEN)
43 return ERANGE;
45 if (pd == THREAD_SELF)
46 return prctl (PR_SET_NAME, name) ? errno : 0;
48 #define FMT "/proc/self/task/%u/comm"
49 char fname[sizeof (FMT) + 8];
50 sprintf (fname, FMT, (unsigned int) pd->tid);
52 int fd = open_not_cancel_2 (fname, O_RDWR);
53 if (fd == -1)
54 return errno;
56 int res = 0;
57 ssize_t n = TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY (write_not_cancel (fd, name, name_len));
58 if (n < 0)
59 res = errno;
60 else if (n != name_len)
61 res = EIO;
63 close_not_cancel_no_status (fd);
65 return res;