> Tigran Aivazian writes:
> > On Wed, 23 Aug 2000, Patrick Narkinsky wrote:
[...]
> > You could enhance a file /proc/<pid>/stat (or some other, or invent
> > a new one) to export a VM cookie (sorry, working with Mark made the
> > word "cookie" my favourite one and I can't think of a better :)
> > which is nothing other than a current->mm value, i.e. a kernel
> > virtual address. Then you can easily detect CLONE_VM threads.
>
> Note that this isn't a proper way to detect threads.
Taking off from Linus' suggestion of task-group-ids,
why not having something like
/proc/tgroups/<tgid>
containg only symlinks to the dirs in /proc/<pid> for
tasks belonging to some task-group?
Sure, it wouldn't explain WHAT the tasks are sharing, but still...
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