If both pthread_create and fork are wrappers over the clone system call
is there any advantage of using threads over processes
Kedar Patankar wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > Can any compare Linux threads with the Unix threads, how robust Linux
> > threads are
>
> I suppose by "unix" threads you mean "posix threads". Linux has a
> decent and fairly robust implementation of posix threads, implemented
> partly in the kernel as the "clone" system call, and a userland library
> libpthread that deals with the nitty-grity of clone and lower level
> details and provides you with a posix-thread interface.
> For more info do man pthread-create and friends. If you are using
> any distro based on glibc2.1 (RH6.x, Suse 6.2+) then you already have
> libpthread installed. For earlier glibc's you may have to go and get
> libpthread and compile/install it.
> Other than that just pick up any standard book on posix-threads
> and it should apply to gnu/linux implementation of threads.
>
> Regards,
> Kedar.
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