December 15, 2007 _LWP_GETNAME 2

### NAME

_lwp_getname - get descriptive name of an LWP

### LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

### SYNOPSIS

```int` _lwp_getname(```lwpid_t target``, char *name``, size_t len`)

### DESCRIPTION

_lwp_getname(``) gets the descriptive name of the LWP. It takes the following arguments.

```target`
  The LWP whose descriptive name will be obtained.

```name`
  The buffer to be filled with the descriptive name of the LWP.

```len`
  The size of the buffer ```name` in bytes.

### RETURN VALUES

_lwp_getname(``) returns 0 on success. Otherwise, -1 is returned and errno is set to indicate the error.

### SEE ALSO

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