pthread_setname_np (3) Linux Manual Page

pthread_setname_np, pthread_getname_np – set/get the name of a thread

Synopsis

#define _GNU_SOURCE /* See feature_test_macros(7) */
#include <pthread.h>
int pthread_setname_np(pthread_t thread, const char *name);
int pthread_getname_np(pthread_t thread,
                       char *name, size_t len);

Compile and link with -pthread.

Description

By default, all the threads created using pthread_create() inherit the program name. The pthread_setname_np() function can be used to set a unique name for a thread, which can be useful for debugging multithreaded applications. The thread name is a meaningful C language string, whose length is restricted to 16 characters, including the terminating null byte (‘