Re: kernel thread support - LWP's

Mike Shaver (shaver@mozilla.org)
Wed, 14 Jul 1999 23:13:59 -0400


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?

(What does ``multiple processes'' mean to you?)

Mike

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