From: Robert Klemme Date: 2005-08-29T23:00:19+09:00 Subject: Re: Associating a name with a thread? 2005/8/29, Andrew S. Townley : > I had hoped I wasn't missing anything obvious. Question though: if I > re-open the Thread class to add a name attribute, does that apply to > all, pre-existing threads or just new ones? There are 2 others that I > know about, but... It applies to all instances - however, threads created already and threads created elsewhere won't get a name. The easiest might be to go down the trace route :-) and print source file and line # for each Thread.new invocation. Kind regards robert