actually I am using forks module instead of the threads module

In that case, you can simply assign to $0, which has been working fine for ages (on Linux, and for processes) — i.e. you don't need 5.13: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use forks;

my @procs;

for my $procname (qw(foo bar baz)) {
    push @procs,
        threads->new(
            sub {
                $0 = $procname;
                sleep 1;
            }
        );
}

system "ps fT -o pid,cmd";

$_->join() for @procs;

__END__
$ ./837477.pl
  PID CMD
10408 bash -rcfile .bashrc
 5278  \_ /usr/bin/perl ./837477.pl
 5279      \_ /usr/bin/perl ./837477.pl
 5280      \_ foo
 5281      \_ bar
 5282      \_ baz
 5283      \_ ps fT -o pid,cmd

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(the foo/bar/baz are your "forks-threads")

In reply to Re^3: assigning a name to every threads by almut
in thread assigning a name to every threads by ajeet@perl

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