Re: Threads in linux.

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Tue, 17 Aug 1999 15:58:45 +0100 (BST)

> But the director says me that linux doesn't implement threads, is this
> true?. He said that threads in linux are implemented by a library, not at
> kernel-level.

Linux since 2.0 only implements threads, processes are just special cases
of threads that dont share a lot.

The C library (glibc2/glibc 2.1) provides an implementation of the posix thread
API on top of the kernel support.

Linux 1.2, and libc5 provide userspace threads only

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