Re: GDB, pthreads, and kernel threads

From: Douglas McNaught
Date: Thu May 19 2005 - 12:13:50 EST


John Clark <jclark@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Also, I do believe I'm using the NPTL package for threads. Is there a
> way to absolutely tell without
> question?

If you see multiple 'ps' entries for threads (without using any
special flags to ps) you are not using NPTL. NPTL is in 2.6 and in
some vendor 2.4 kernels, but not in kernel.org 2.4.X.

Hope this helps!

-Doug
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