On Tuesday 01 March 2005 03:20 pm, Jake Pollmann wrote: > I'm nearly certain I'm not qualified to comment on this, but could it > be due to Redhat's use of nptl? I don't belive that Debian's 2.4 > kernels use it, but I'm certain that RHEL 3.0 does.
NPTL doesn't really change the way the kernel expresses a thread--they are still processes created via clone() that share certain resources (code and memory space, file descriptors). Thus they should still show up the same in the process listings. AFAIU NPTL is an improvement to the pthread library that requires some kernel support--accessed via newer apis which use better/faster algorithms to do some of the same chores. (for example O(1) bound on exit() calls, etc.) Someone, please correct me where I am wrong... -- Respectfully, Nicholas Leippe Sales Team Automation, LLC 1335 West 1650 North, Suite C Springville, UT 84663 +1 801.853.4090 http://www.salesteamautomation.com .===================================. | This has been a P.L.U.G. mailing. | | Don't Fear the Penguin. | | IRC: #utah at irc.freenode.net | `==================================='
