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Set the name of the current thread to the specified `threadName`. On all platforms other than Linux and Darwin this method has no effect. Note that on those two platforms `threadName` will be truncated to a length of 15 bytes, not including the terminating '0'.

== Synopsis

Declared in `<bslmt_threadutilimpl_pthread.h>`

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static
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setThreadName(xref:BloombergLP/bslstl/StringRef.adoc[bslstl::StringRef] const& threadName);
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