On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 2:15 PM, soumen acharya <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > Is it possible to get thread id information from task_struct structure. > > My point is.... > Say a user process creates multiple threads, how does kernel handles each > thread (thread to task mapping.) > > Does it create unique task for each user thread, if so then how to identify > each user thread from the kernel task structure, like which field to look > for the information.
see the difference between fields tgid and pid in task_struct http://books.google.co.in/books?id=9yIEji1UheIC&pg=PA77&lpg=PA77&dq=tgid+field+in+task_struct&source=web&ots=JCiIqtiSE_&sig=np7pxCdNN1aLvfSJye4x31saSgA&hl=en&ei=4EKRSd7-IKGbtweb79TXCw&sa=X&oi=book_result&resnum=1&ct=result http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/2004-06/msg00418.html Thanks - Manish > > Thanks > Soumen > IIIT Bangalore > 26/C Electronics City > Bangalore 560 100 INDIA > Mobile-(+91)9916596352 > > -- To unsubscribe from this list: send an email with "unsubscribe kernelnewbies" to [email protected] Please read the FAQ at http://kernelnewbies.org/FAQ
