Support getting the name or description of a thread

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
38/100
Issue type
Feature
Clarity
Mostly clear
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
cpp
Domain
devtools, reverse-engineering

Research direction

No source file, test, or entry point is identified. Start by locating how the debugger represents and enumerates threads, then read the Windows GetThreadDescription API documentation and determine how thread names or descriptions should be exposed to users. Done means the metadata is obtained where supported and covered by an appropriate test or verification path.

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Description

enhancement functionality Impact: Medium

Threads are typically associated with a name or description, it would be better if we can obtain this info and present it to the users. For example, on Windows, we can get the info by calling GetThreadDescription

Dominant language
C++
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