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Load the name of the current thread into the specified `threadName`. Note that this method clears `*threadName` on all platforms other than Linux and Darwin.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadutilimpl_pthread.h>`

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static
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getThreadName(xref:bsl/string.adoc[bsl::string]* threadName);
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