RFR: 7102541: Implement os::set_native_thread_name() on Windows and Linux

[Thomas Stüfe]

On Sat, Oct 11, 2014 at 12:22 AM, Gerard Ziemski <gerard.ziemski at oracle.com>
wrote:

>
> With your changes even the Mac OS X platform seems to benefit - we now get
> more named threads on Mac (ie. "Thread 13 Java: VM Thread" and "Thread 24
> Java: VM Perdiodic Task Thread"). I do wonder what all those remainding
> threads are those, but that's another question...
>

I think the primordial thread is missing, the java main thread, NMT worker
thread and of course the n GC threads. They should be easy to add, though.