Name: tb29552 Date: 02/19/2003


jdb implements the 'thread <thread id>' command to allow you to set the
default/current thread you are interested in debugging.

> threads
Group system:
  (java.lang.ref.Reference$ReferenceHandler)0x4 Reference Handler cond. waiting
  (java.lang.ref.Finalizer$FinalizerThread)0x3 Finalizer cond. waiting
  (java.lang.Thread)0x2 Signal Dispatcher cond. waiting
  (java.lang.Thread)0x1 CompileThread0 cond. waiting
Group main:
  (java.lang.Thread)0x5 main cond. waiting


> thread 0x5
main[1]


But you can't set it by thread name:

> thread main
"main" is not a valid thread id.


It would save looking up and typing thread IDs if you could
use a thread name. If the name is not unique, jdb could
return an error prompting the user to supply an id.

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