Re: [PATCH] 2.4.9 Make thread group id visible in/proc/<pid>/status

From: george anzinger (george@mvista.com)
Date: Mon Aug 20 2001 - 13:50:37 EST


Dave McCracken wrote:
>
> --On Monday, August 20, 2001 17:19:13 +0100 Alan Cox
> <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
>
> > I didnt think anyone was using the broken tgid stuff ?
>
> I was under the impression that the current LinuxThread library does use
> CLONE_THREAD, and I know of at least one project under way that's also
> using it (the NGPT pthread library). The getpid() system call already
> returns tgid instead of pid. I'm also looking into what's involved in
> making tgid more robust.
>
> Dave McCracken

Are you possibly also looking into allocating a small data structure to
the thread group? A place to keep thread group signal info, perhaps?

George
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