This routine changes the object name attribute in the thread attributes object specified by the attr argument to the value specified by the name argument. A new thread created using the thread attributes object is initialized with the object name that was set in that attributes object. The object name is a C language string and provides an identifier that is meaningful to a person debugging a multithreaded application. The maximum number of characters in the object name is 31. This routine contrasts with pthread_setname_np(), which changes the object name in the thread object for an existing thread.