gdb - customize it the way <b>you</b> want

Problem: there is no thread name support in Linux's pthreads...
...in a program with tens of threads, how do we find the thread we want to debug?
Using 'info threads' will give a pile of crap, since the current function may not tell us which thread it is.
Solution: using gdb used-commands, gdb's logging and an external (Perl) script.

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