Nadav Har'El wrote: > On Mon, Feb 26, 2001, Daniel Feiglin wrote about "Pthreads again": > > Hello! > > > > I've been poking around "Understanding the LINUX Kernel: From I/O Ports > > to Process Management" by Daniel Pierre Bovet & Marco Cesati. They've > > got some good stuff on SVR4 style IPC implementation, but nothing on the > > POSIX threads implementation. > > > > Does anyone know if Linux PThreads, say at kernel level >= 2.2.16 is > > implemented in the kernel? What's a good RTFM on the Linux > > implementation (NOT stuff like Butenhoff, which is how to use them)? > > Linus made a concious decision to have only minimal support for threads > in the Linux kernel: threads are in most respects exactly the same as > regular processes, except that they share the address space by using the > only (as far as I know) new system call added to Linux for threading - > clone(2), which is like fork(2) except the new process shares the old > address space (pages are not copied even on write). Seen that. > > > See for example http://pauillac.inria.fr/~xleroy/linuxthreads/faq.html#K > (read the rest of that FAQ if you're interested in more important issues > about threads in Linux). > Yep. Comment D 10. , first bullet, says it all. Thanks. > > -- > Nadav Har'El | Monday, Feb 26 2001, 4 Adar 5761 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] |----------------------------------------- > Phone: +972-53-245868, ICQ 13349191 |I couldn't think of an insteresting > http://nadav.harel.org.il |signature to put here... Maybe next time. > > ================================================================= > To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with > the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command > echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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