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Asked: 2026-06-15T06:06:07+00:00

I have read one thing about threads in the Java thread model API. It

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I have read one thing about threads in the Java thread model API. It says that more than one thread can have the same name. But the PID of each thread will be unique, right? What is the name then? Is not the thread class name?

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    what is the name then? isnot the thread class name?

    The name is whatever you set it to be using Thread.setName. It’s just for the purpose of diagnostics. If you don’t call Thread.setName or provide the name to the constructor, the value will be determined as per the docs:

    Allocates a new Thread object. This constructor has the same effect as Thread (null, null, gname), where gname is a newly generated name. Automatically generated names are of the form "Thread-"+n, where n is an integer.

    (It’s obviously more useful diagnostically to give a specific thread name which indicates its purpose.)

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