On Fri, Feb 22, 2002 at 09:46:59AM +1100, Jobst Schmalenbach wrote:
> how can I see/show threads on a linux box?

ps aux

> top and ps dont do it, ps has a -m in the man page but if you run it:

In linux, a thread is a separate process in the kernel, its given its own 
unique pid, it looks like a normal process to ps and friends. 

Some other unixes do this differently, so the -m option might exist because
of some standard, or it was ported,  or what ever (I'm just making it up, I
don't know why).


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