Re: Process vs. Threads

From: Dan Kegel (dank@alumni.caltech.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 06 2001 - 12:01:15 EST


jorge_ortiz@hp.com wrote:
> I have been trying to differenciate threads and process in Linux. As
> I am sure you already know, other OS, namely HPUX, implement threads
> in a different way. ...
> Of course, I am talking about kernel 2.2.x, but AFAIK this has not
> changed in the new kernels.

It's starting to change a bit; see the discussion following
  http://boudicca.tux.org/hypermail/linux-kernel/2000week36/0903.html
  ("thread group comments").

Can someone summarize the state of the thread changes in 2.4?
A lot seemed to happen, but from what I gather, nothing user-visible yet.

- Dan
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