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set native thread name for the debugger #13022

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On Linux, this can be done with pthread_setname_np. The maximum length for the name is 16 (really 15, since it ends with a zero byte) so it needs to be truncated. The threads will then show their given name in info threads. This makes debugging so much easier.

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    A-debuginfoArea: Debugging information in compiled programs (DWARF, PDB, etc.)

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