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Asked: 2026-05-21T17:32:19+00:00

In a JNI native method, is there a way to know the ID of

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In a JNI native method, is there a way to know the ID of the current thread without calling Java back? Thread-local storage would also work.

EDIT: pthread.h is present in the NDK include folder… Does anyone know if Java threads correspond to POSIX ones in the NDK implementation?

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    Which ID are you interested in? A Dalvik thread dump includes this:

    "main" prio=5 tid=1 TIMED_WAIT
  | group="main" sCount=1 dsCount=0 obj=0x40017730 self=0x12798
  | sysTid=3167 nice=0 sched=0/0 cgrp=default handle=-2146114456
  | schedstat=( 358850000 275073000 869 ) utm=23 stm=12 core=0

    “tid” is the VM’s ID.
    “handle” is the pthread_t.
    “sysTid” is the result of gettid() (the Linux process ID).

    The libcore thread ID (obtained from java.lang.Thread.getId()) is not shown.

    (You can obtain the above with “adb shell kill -3 “. The output goes to a common file, defined by the dalvik.vm.stack-trace-file property — usually /data/anr/traces.txt, but it varies by device.)

    EDIT: Every Dalvik VM thread is a Linux pthread. The gettid() syscall will give you a unique ID for each thread. Also, you can add identifying information to TLS in java.lang.Thread or pthread_key.

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