Re: kernel thread support - LWP's
Darren Reed (avalon@coombs.anu.edu.au)
Thu, 15 Jul 1999 14:19:37 +1000 (EST)
In some mail from Mike Shaver, sie said:
>
> Darren Reed wrote:
> >
> > Are there plans in the near future to support proper LWP's in the Linux
> > kernel ? By this I mean multiple threads of execution within the same
> > process id, not multiple processes sharing the same VM, etc. Can I
> > encourage whoever is considering doing this that it would be a very
> > good thing to do ? :)
>
> Do you mean something beyond simply making CLONE_PID work, so that
> clone()d siblings share a single process ID?
Yes.
> (What does ``multiple processes'' mean to you?)
A "process" is something which has a unique process id.
Darren
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