December 15, 2007 _LWP_SETNAME 2

### NAME

_lwp_setname - set descriptive name of an LWP

### LIBRARY

Standard C Library (libc, -lc)

### SYNOPSIS

```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

_lwp_setname(``) 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_getname(2)