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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Perf: bug fix: distinguish between rename and exec
From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: David Ahern <dsahern@gmail.com>
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Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 18:30:45 +0100
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On Wed, 2012-02-15 at 09:57 -0700, David Ahern wrote:
> 
> I'm not Acme, but I do care. We use a lot of processes with named 
> threads that give users an idea about the function of a particular
> thread.
> 
But why would they care? If you're debugging its easy enough to see from
the backtrace and if you're not, most tools like top/ps don't even show
threads (by default).

So who cares what threads are called.

I realize I'm not going to convince anybody, but I genuinely don't see
the point of naming threads.
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