Re: whether the thread is implemented in the kernel ?

From: Rik van Riel (riel@conectiva.com.br)
Date: Fri Dec 28 2001 - 07:40:26 EST

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On Thu, 28 Dec 2000 isp01ljl@taurus.zsu.edu.cn wrote:

> I encountered a interesting problem , that is whether the thread
> is implemented in the kernel ? if yes , then what is the system
> call to generate a thread ? is it similar to fork() ?

clone(2), which is the exact same code path as fork().

For more information, see
man 2 clone
kernel/fork.c::do_fork()

regards,

Rik

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