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Re: [suse-programming-e] pthreads
  • From: Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx>
  • Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 11:24:45 +0200
  • Message-id: <200408311124.45608.sh@xxxxxxx>
On Monday 30 August 2004 21:27, Brad Bourn wrote:
> Can someone from SuSE verify that on 2.4 kernels, separate pthreads of the
> same process will show up with ps having separate PID's?

Yes.

That's also the only way to tell the threads apart so you can send signals
etc.; to the outside, pthreads look the same as just another process.

> Isn't that against the standard?

I am not sure. But then, that might have been one more reason to migrate to
POSIX threads with kernel 2.6.

You might want to read up at http://www.kernel.org/ for more details.


CU
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Stefan Hundhammer <sh@xxxxxxx> Penguin by conviction.
YaST2 Development
SuSE Linux AG
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